The Straits Times, 16 May 2008

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    Lock icon All that's left...
    73 1 Yingxiu in Wenchuan County used to be a picturesque town along the Mm River. But all that changed when Monday's killer earthquake flattened most of the town. Troops had to walk in as roads were cut off, and bad weather hampered rescue flights. When they finally got
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  • PRIME
    • SICHUAN QUAKE Heart of quake zone
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        Lock icon 'I saw a body pulled out every 15 mins'
        993 2  -  Tracy Quek Entire Beichuan city is ruined, all buildings totally o partially destroyei By China Correspondent In Beichuan County DEATH confronted me the moment I set foot in Beichuan county, a remote mountainous area in south-west Sichuan province devastated by Monday's
        REUTERS; AP; TRACY QUEK  -  993 words
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        Lock icon On bicycle and foot, it was just a town too far
        840 4  -  Chua Chin Hon Quake-torn mountain trail to epicentre all but impassable to traffic By China Bureau Chief Near Shuimu Township (Sichuan) FOR the first 40 minutes, my cycling trip to earthquake epicentre Wenchuan yesterday seemed like a great idea
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        Lock icon Thousands of villagers trek for hours to reach safety
        527 4  -  Tracy Quek By China Correspondent In Hanwang Town COVERED in mud, their clothes torn, some with purple bruises on their faces, the exhausted villagers limped into the main public square in Hanwang town. They had walked for eight hours, starting out
        TRACY QUEK; REUTERS  -  527 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Rare to find survivors after 72 hrs
        228 4  -  Peh Shing Huei By AFTER today, there are unlikely to be many more survivors waiting to be pulled from the ruins caused by the deadly earthquake in China. Experts say that it is rare for people to stay alive beyond 72 hours when
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        Lock icon Dams in quake zone a flood risk
        388 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Water resources minister warns action is needed to ensure safety Zipingpu Dam CHINA warned yesterday that it faces flood risks from dams in the earthquake zone, hinting at a nightmare scenario critics of the region's hydroelectric projects have long warned of.
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AP; XINHUA  -  388 words
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        Lock icon Anger rises over 'buildings that were like tofu'
        349 6  -  By Caryn Yeo AMID fading hopes of rescuing the thousands buried beneath the rubble of buildings, anguish is giving way to fury over charges of corruption and dodgy construction practices. "These buildings were like tofu," bristled one netizen on a Chinese online
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        Lock icon Fault line 'gave way in two stages'
        179 6 ASSOCIATED PRESS Tokyo THE fault line that caused the devastating earthquake in south-western China probably buckled in two stages, and the hardness of the terrain contributed to the wide reach of the damage, Japanese scientists said yesterday. Monday's 7.9-magnitude quake rattled buildings in
        ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  179 words
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        Lock icon Elite Japanese disaster team arrives in China
        631 8  -  Kwan Weng Kin Acceptance of relief aid from abroad is probably a 'first' for Beijing By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo MEMBERS of Japan's elite disaster rescue team became the first batch of foreign relief personnel to arrive in China last night, following Beijing's
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        Lock icon Beijing still uncomfortable with outside help, say analysts
        739 8 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing CHINA'S reluctance to allow more foreign rescue teams in quake-dev-astated areas shows it remains uncomfortable with outside help despite 30 years of reforms and opening to the world, analysts said. While China finally allowed Japan yesterday to send a
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AFP; CHINA DAILY  -  739 words
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        Lock icon Close shave for Banyan Tree chief
        195 9 BANYAN Tree Holdings executive chairman Ho Kong Ping (right) has described his close shave on board an aircraft that was about to take off from Chengdu airport when Monday's earthquake struck. The flight was headed for Hong Kong and the aircraft was taxiing along
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        Lock icon Chinese nationals return to Chengdu
        213 9  -  EISEN TEO CHINESE national Vi Chong worked hard to get a stable job as an engineer in Singapore two years ago. But the 24-year-old resigned this week to return to his home town in Deyang, in Sichuan province. He was among about 40 people who
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      • Article
        Lock icon 3,000 stranded tourists evacuated
        106 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MORE than 3,000 domestic and foreign tourists stranded in scenic Jiuzhaigou have been evacuated, state media reported yesterday. Another 2,517 tourists, including 682 from overseas, were due to be evacuated yesterday, Xinhua news agency quoted the National Tourism Administration as saying. The administration's disaster
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        Lock icon S'poreans pitch in with big donations
        427 9  -  Yang Huiwen ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LEE SUSHYANANDHEZONGYING Among them is businessman Oei Hong Leong, who gives $2m By will be used to rebuild two schools in Chongqing. And 12 members of the Sin-gapore-Sichuan Trade and Investment Committee (SSTIC) have pledged more than $900,000 in
        ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LEE SUSHYANANDHEZONGYING; REUTERS  -  427 words
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  • CHINA
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      Lock icon Taiwan prosecutors on trail of missing millions
      512 10  -  Ong Hwee Hwee By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei They manage to get transaction record of suspect's bank account TAIWAN prosecutors have reportedly obtained some information on the whereabouts of US$3O million (Ss4l million) in missing dip- lomatic funds, a development that could shed
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  • EAST AS IA
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      Lock icon Seoul to make bird-flu vaccine for human use
      381 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS Home-grown vaccine requires more clinical tests Seoul SOUTH Korea will build its own factory to make a hu-man-use bird flu vaccine, health officials said yesterday as they battled the nation's worst outbreak among poultry. The factory, to be built next
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      Lock icon South Korea seeks direct talks with North on food aid
      202 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Seoul SOUTH Korea said yesterday it wants direct talks with North Korea to discuss providing badly needed food aid to the communist state, softening its position that the North must first ask for help. "If we have a
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      Lock icon TAKE THIS AT FACE VALUE
      59 14 Some people have money to burn; this woman has money to wipe her face with. It's not real money though; it's actually oil-blotting paper made to resemble a 10,000-yen note. Japanese toy giant Bandai displayed the product in Tokyo yesterday. The oil-blotting paper is sold
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      Lock icon Japan urged to do away with death penalty
      492 14 REUTERS In review of rights performance, UN body also calls for the country to settle 'comfort women' issue Geneva JAPAN was urged yesterday by friends and critics in the United Nations Human Rights Council to abolish the death penalty and take concrete
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon CNN CHIEF SAYS SORRY TO CHINA
        125 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BEIJING: CNN'S president has apologised for remarks made last month by Mr Jack Cafferty, a commentator of the US news network, who called China a "bunch of goons and thugs" in blasting the country for exporting unsafe products, Xinhua news agency said
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        Lock icon FIREFIGHT ON PHILIPPINE ISLAND
        98 14 ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA: Philippine marines clashed with Muslim separatist rebels yesterday, barely a week after most Malaysian ceasefire monitors were sent home because peace talks had stalled. Marines Commandant Lieutenant-General Benjamin Dolorfino and chief rebel peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front swopped
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        Lock icon $124M WORTH OF HASHISH SEIZED
        95 14 REUTERS HANOI: Vietnamese police found tonnes of hashish covered by jeans in cartons shipped from Pakistan en route to China in what they described as Vietnam's largest drug haul, newspapers reported yesterday. The 8.8 tonnes of hashish had a street value of nearly US$9O million
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      212 14 BANK OF CHINA Share your love Offer your support We thank you for your generous donations to the victims of the China Quake via remittance Commission free Cable fee sponsored by BANK OF CHINA In the month of May, all charges for remittances to Sichuan and Chongqin in China are
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  • KLACTencor
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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      703 17  -  Ravi Velloor Previously unknown group warns govt to stop supporting US By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi THE video clips sent by e-mail showed a bicycle, its carrier seat strapped with a blue bag that seemed half full. It also showed
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      Lock icon Threat of violence over use of name 'Bombay'
      282 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS Mumbai WHAT'S in a name? Everything, according to a powerful party boss in Mumbai and his hordes of violent followers. Mr Bal Thackeray, 82, an eccentric regional politician who 13 years ago led the charge to change the name of
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • MYANMAR CYCLONE
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        Lock icon Aid for the lucky few
        144 19 CRITICAL supplies are slowly trickling into the cyclone devastated areas of Myanmar, bringing food, medicines and shelter for the lucky few. But aid agencies say time is running out to bring relief to the 2.5 million people hit badly by the storm nearly two weeks
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        Lock icon STUCK IN CAMPS
        437 19 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Evacuees in state camps complain of inadequate food and forced labour Bogalay PO AUNG would rather return to the ruins of his village in Myanmar's delta region than stay in a state relief camp. "We keep hearing things about victims at the government-run camps,"
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        440 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS UN warns of second wave of deaths as aid to victims is delayed Bangkok THE United Nations has warned of a second wave of deaths among cyclone victims in Myanmar as a top British official slammed the government response to the disaster as
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  440 words
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        Lock icon Charter 'overwhelmingly approved'
        274 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Yangon MYANMAR'S junta announced that a new Constitution has won overwhelming support in a referendum held while the country was reeling from a devastating cyclone. State radio reported yesterday that 92.4 per cent of the 22 million eligible voters approved the Constitution, dismissed by
        ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS  -  274 words
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        221 19 Cash donations Singapore Red Cross Society Address: 15 Penang Lane, Singapore *****6. Cheques to be made payable to Singapore Red Cross Society. Write your name, organisation, mailing address, contact numbers, and "For survivors of Myanmar cyclone" on the back. OCBC Bank customers can make donations via OCBC
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        Lock icon Asean to lead global 'coalition of mercy'
        410 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Move to play greater role in Myanmar cyclone crisis, says sec-gen Surin Washington ASEAN has said it would lead an international "coalition of mercy" to provide assistance to Myanmar, in a move reflecting its efforts to play a greater role in
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; AFP  -  410 words
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  • COPING WITH RISING COSTS
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      Lock icon Jakarta to raise fuel prices
      551 21  -  Salim Osman ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM REUTERS Govt to give cash handouts to low-income families to soften the blow By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta INDONESIA confirmed yesterday that it would raise fuel prices by up to 30 per cent but without saying when so that it
      ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM REUTERS; REUTERS  -  551 words
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      Lock icon Manila may act to cut power rates
      529 21  -  Alastair Mclndoe Govt wants electricity giant Meralco to expand discounts for low-income users By Philippines Correspondent In Manila THE Philippine government has set its sights on bringing down local power rates which are the highest in Asia after Japan, which foreign chambers of
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      501 22  -  Hazlin Hassan ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Malaysia offering to swop palm oil for rice in barter deal with other countries to build ud domestic suddlv By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA is prepared to offer palm oil in exchange for rice to
      ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  501 words
    • Article
      Lock icon A 'silent tsunami' for the world's poor
      419 22 Washington THE global food crisis has sparked riots in more than 30 countries and poses a threat to "peace and stability", the executive director of the United Nations World Food Program told a US Senate committee. With more than 860 million people already
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      Lock icon Food prices show signs of stabilising, says UN agency
      153 22 THE soaring food prices that have triggered global political and economic turmoil over the past year have finally shown the first tentative signs of stabilising. The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) food price index, considered the best measure of
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon S'pore, Malaysia set up joint committee on Pedra Branca
      408 25  -  Lydia Lim Joint Technical Committee wi enforce the ICJ verdict due next week on the dispute By Senior Political Correspondent SINGAPORE and Malaysia have set up a Joint Technical Committee to enforce next week's verdict on the sovereignty dispute over Pedra
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    • Article
      Lock icon MCA rocked by talk of 'snoop squad'
      584 27  -  Chow Kum Hor Party president denies setting up 3-man team to dig up dirt on his rivals By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S largest Chinese political party has been rocked by allegations that a clandestine squad was set up to spy on
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      Lock icon DAP's Perak office petrol-bombed
      173 27 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Ipoh THE Democratic Action Party's state headquarters in Perak was petrol-bombed yesterday, in an attack that officials described as politically motivated. Two men on a motorcycle flung homemade explosives at the offices at 2.30 am yesterday, local party chairman Ngeh
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    • Article
      Lock icon Airport heist suspects freed, then rearrested
      267 27 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Kuala Lumpur FREEDOM was short-lived for the three suspects in the Ssl.s million heist at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang last month they were rearrested immediately after their police remand expired. The suspects, aged 23, 25 and
      THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  267 words
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      486 30  -  Roger Maynard GLOBAL RACE FOR TALENT HOTS UP Canberra wants to take in 31,000 more skilled workers each year By Australia Correspondent In Sydney AS GLOBAL competition for skilled workers hots up, Australia has ordered a massive boost to its immigration programme. With the
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      263 30 AUSTRALIA is not alone in trying to attract foreign talent. Findings of a survey by Manpower Inc, a top global employment agency, released last month showed that almost a third of employers in 32 countries are struggling to fill skilled positions.
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      414 31 'hysical and biological systems n disorder due to global vanning caused by man: Study Washington HUMAN-GENERATED climate change is altering plant and animal life on every continent, a vast global study has found, with flowers blooming and birds breeding earlier, and polar bears
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      302 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS Ramallah AS THE American President was congratulating the Jewish Parliament on Israel's 60th birthday, Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of their uprooting with rallies, sirens and black balloons. Yesterday's events marked the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who either
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      590 33 REUTERS Jerusalem He presents bold vision to Israeli Parliament but makes no mention of hopes for peace deal before he leaves office US PRESIDENT George W. Bush marked the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding yesterday with a peace prophecy for the Middle East in
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      489 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS, LOS ANGELES TIMES His endorsement gives Obama added credibility among white, working-class voters, dealing a crushing blow to Hillary's bid Washington SENATOR Barack Obama has secured a long-sought-after endorsement from rival John Edwards, a crushing blow to Mrs Hillary Clinton's
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      272 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington THE wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who has been a critic of the violence in Sudan, has sold off more than US$2 million (552.75 million) in mutual funds connected to the African nation. The sale on Wednesday
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      473 35 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Their takings rose to $47b but good times won't last as economy slumps New York GAMBLERS lost US$34.l billion (Ss47 billion) at US commercial casinos last year, according to a report by the American Gaming Association (AGA). That is up
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      158 35 REUTERS Washington A BABY supernova that is more than a century old has been found in the middle of our own Milky Way galaxy and provides an unprecedented opportunity to watch a star dying, astronomers said. The supernova, known as G1.9+0.3, would have
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      138 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS Bex (Switzerland) SOME people go fishing on their day off. Mr Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-pow-ered wings and perform figures of eight above the Swiss Alps. Mr Rossy, 48, made his first public flight,
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      502 37 BLOOMBERG Battling low poll ratings, he says he is the right leader to tackle Britain's economic woes London MR GORDON Brown vowed to fight on as Britain's Prime Minister, saying he is the right person to lead the country through the
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        272 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS WITH the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music. But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And his shoes don't
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        216 39 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOUTH Korea's disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo Suk is seeking foreign investors for his new pet cloning business, a scientist close to him said yesterday. Mr Park Se Pill said the researcher has set up a biotech firm capitalised at US$l.3
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        113 39 REUTERS A WOMAN in Terengganu woke up to a nightmare on Tuesday when she discovered that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband. The 36-year-old housewife
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      442 41 A JAKARTA courts astonishing ruling on business behaviour that went against Temasek Holdings will have investors wondering anew how welcome they can be in Indonesia. Straight off the bat is the question of legal clarity, and not only about what an-ti-competitive behaviour is. There is too much
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      1176 41  -  Ching Cheong »CCP'S HANDLING OF MAJOR QUAKES By Senior Writer In Hong Kong THE earthquake that ravaged western China this week was the second most deadly in 50 years. The most deadly, the Tangshan quake of 32 years ago, claimed 240,000 lives. The
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      770 41  -  Kathleen Parker WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP WHITE HOUSE RACE By "A FULL-BLOODED American." That's how 24-year-old Josh Fry of West Virginia described his preference for Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama. His feelings aren't racist, he explained. He would just be more
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      1070 42  -  Bruce Gale »MATA JELI: A PERSPECTIVE ON INDONESIAN AFFAIRS By Senior Writer "THERE is no multi-dimensional crisis" in the Indonesian economy, said Vice-President Jusuf Kalla during a national development planning meeting in Jakarta last week. Indeed, despite the worrying rise in food and oil prices,
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      1068 43  -  Lan Bremmer TRIBUTE MEDIA SERVICES GLOBAL SPIKE IN FOOD PRICES By LAST month, the United Nations called the recent international spike in food prices "an unprecedented challenge of global proportions that has become a crisis for the world's most vulnerable". The World Bank warns that
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      919 44  - No surprises but plenty of questions Rahul Singh »JAIPUR BLASTS By For The Straits Times INDIA is no stranger to terrorism. In fact, other than Iraqis and Afghans, more Indians have died from terrorism in recent years than any other nationality. From 1984 to 1991, terrorism in Punjab took a
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      28 41 Social unrest brewing Food shocks and the threats they pose for stability in dozens of countries will be with us for some time to come. PAGE 44 PUNCHLINES
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      1532 45 Temasek Foundation, which turns one today, is seeking new pathways in philanthropy in Asia. Lee Siew Hua meets its exuberant chief executive Benedict Cheong, who views the Temasek name as a plus overall, and sees the fun in doing good. PHILANTHROPY is a
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      845 46  -  Clarissa Oon CYBER MATTERS By IT WAS a face-off between two rival presidential candidates, one haggard and shifty-looking and the other relaxed, with the bronzed, confident visage of a Greek god. Played out before the largest television audience at that time some
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      954 46  -  Keith Lin »THE POST-65ERS By THREE weeks after three civic society groups resurrected a longstanding campaign calling on employers of maids to give them regular days off, the issue seems to have taken on a life of its own. Some
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      336 48  -  Li Xueying Kor Kian Beng She can speak and recognise family members but remains in hospital after Monday's stroke By MRS Lee Kuan Yew, wife of the Minister Mentor, is in hospital after suffering a stroke on Monday. However, her haemorrhage has since
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      519 48 ACCORDING to Dr Alvin Hong, consultant neurosurgeon at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and Gleneagles Medical Centre, there are two types of stroke. "One is caused by blockage in a blood vessel, so that blood cannot flow to the part of the brain that the vessel supplies.
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      447 49  -  Hong Xinyi By Retailers predic smaller takings in the face of economic woes AT THIS time last year, ahead of the July 1 rise in the goods and services tax to 7 per cent, retailers expected shoppers to splurge at the Great Singapore Sale
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      145 49 Vesak celebrations at Little India kicked off yesterday with multiethnic performances and a vegetarian dinner for almost 1,000 guests. Residents from welfare homes and homes for the aged received hongbao from Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. The event was organised by the Singapore Buddhist Lodge and
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      540 49  -  Jessica Lim By A SURVEY of rice prices by the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) is making supermarket chains see red, as they question its checks. On Wednesday, Case released the prices of 10 brands of fragrant rice at eight supermarket chains. The
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      120 49 PUMP prices are up again. Caltex and Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) yesterday raised the price of petrol by two cents a litre, and diesel by 10 cents a litre, setting new record highs. The increase is the fourth since last month and the 10th consecutive climb
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      567 52  -  Maria Almenoar Cameras installed on buses will record illegal moves by motorists from June 2 By CUT in front of a bus which has the lane all to its own and you risk getting yourself on tape and a
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      211 52  -  ELENA CHONG A 58-YEAR-OLD retiree was charged in court yesterday over an act of public nuisance: allegedly putting a bicycle chain around the door handles of the National Library's Victoria Street premises on March 15. Earlier newspaper reports said that Bin
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      389 52  -  Esther Tan By A GROUP of 120 full-time police national servicemen set out on a 2.4 km run early Tuesday morning around the parade square of the Home Team Academy. But one of them never completed the run and was
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      479 55  -  Sue-Ann Chia THE RIGHT TO DECIDE "We respect that our members have the right to decide how to exercise their vote. However, we would expect that if they live in a constituency which WP is contesting, they would vote for the
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      296 55  -  Jeremy Au Yong »FEER LIBEL SUIT By LAWYERS for the Prime Minister and Minister Mentor argued in the High Court yesterday for a summary judgment in their defamation suit against the Far Eastern Economic Review (Peer). They want Justice Woo Bih Li
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      311 56  -  Judith Tan By SINCE she was 13, Ngee Ann Polytechnic student Tan Jing Hui wanted to donate blood, because she found newspaper reports of life-saving blood banks running dry too hard to ignore. But her parents whose consent she needed because she
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      579 56  -  Melissa Sim Recent poll finds that 70 per cent of pro-family businesses reported increased sales By WHILE their children frolicked on the slopes in Jurong's Snow City amusement park, parents would often wait outside the main play area because there were no
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      389 57 Sengkang, Ghim Moh estates score well for innovative design, user-friendly features By Ong Bi Hui HOUSING Board estates are not known for their innovative designs, but two cutting-edge ones are starting to change all that. They have just become the first HDB estates to win
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      228 57  -  KARAMJIT KAUR SINGAPORE Airlines brought the curtain down on one era and launched another yesterday morning, when its first all-business-class flight to New York took off. Flight SQ22, which left Changi Airport at 11am, carried just 81 passengers on its non-stop, 18-hour flight
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      1044 60  -  Alfred Siew ALFRED SIEW HP's model enters market for such gadgets which are proving popular with students, women By Technology Correspondent THEY are cute and cheap, yet pack enough punch to let you do everyday stuff such as surf the Internet and read
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      371 62  -  Nicholas Fang It will offer re-usable shopping bags in its malls, recycling bins at all its properties By PROPERTY giant Capita Land has launched a new campaign to encourage users of its malls, offices and serviced apartments here to adopt a green lifestyle.
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      327 62 HONGXINYI A $16 MILLION vertical wind tunnel that simulates a sky dive is opening near Sentosa's Siloso Beach next year. The 17m-tall attraction, called the iFly Singapore, will use four fans to shoot air upwards, allowing fliers to hover on a cushion of wind. Construction
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      248 63  -  Goh Si Guim IT IS clearer by the day that the junta in Myanmar is just going to let more people die in the aftermath of the cyclone. The slow initial response and the severe curtailment of foreign help
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      391 63  -  Caitlin Fua (Ms) I REFER to Tuesday's letter "Distractions during TV soccer match" by Mr Keith Tyrone Neubronner and thank him for commending Star Hub for airing eight Barclays Premier League matches simultaneously last weekend. As for his feedback on pop-up screens (Goal Flashes)
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      219 63  -  Png Chiew Hoon (Ms) WE REFER to Mr David Soli's letter last Friday "Why so long for simple repair jobs?", on why Marine Parade Town Council takes two months to complete simple projects such as repair, washing and repainting of the external walls of
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      103 63  -  Ivan Lim Chin Hoe I REFER to the recent discussion regarding the need for safe and safely driven school buses with proper seat belts to ferry school children, especially primary pupils. Apart from the Government, there is probably only one organisation which is credible,
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      156 63  -  Goh Cheng Chuan WE REFER to Tuesday's feedback "Crowded swimming pool a hazard to learners" by Mr Anders Lee Wei in The Straits Times. We thank Mr Lee and agree that lane swimming, or having separate lanes for learners and regular swimmers, would
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      351 63  -  Patrick Sio CREDIT must be given to the Ministry of Education and the institutes of higher learning for being forthcoming in releasing application figures for places in our local universities. The number shows the enthusiasm of our young in pursuing higher education. It
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      112 63  -  James Kwok AS A 61-year-old commuter who gives up his seat to more deserving passengers, it saddens me to see able-bodied young men in uniform chatting away merrily or pretending to be asleep when they are seated right in front of pregnant women, parents and
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      77 63  -  Lim Mun Moon I REFER to Madam Chin Fong's letter on Monday, "Cheaper medicine for civil servants". To ensure that drug costs remain affordable to all, SGH Pharmacy stocks "branded" drugs as well as their generic equivalents which are cheaper, and comparable in
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      35 63 For more readers' views, log on to straitstimes. com. Access to letters online is free. REGULAR, NOT AD HOC: Courses for family doctors REGULAR IT IS: Health-care group replies IRRESPONSIBLE AND NOT FUNNY: DJ's remark
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      990 64 REUTERS »SOCCER Chelsea manager blames officials for being influenced by United in matches London CHELSEA manager Avram Grant has made a stinging attack on Premier League referees, saying they helped Manchester United win the English title. He also expressed his relief that the
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      405 64 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London MANCHESTER United defender Rio Ferdinand has signed a new contract that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2013. The new deal means Ferdinand is likely to spend the remainder of his career with the club he joined in
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      526 64 LONDON MANCHESTER United go into the 2008-09 season not just as the champions of England, but also with the biggest financial prize in the history of football. Winning the Premier League title has earned them £49.3 million (Ssl32 million) according to
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      416 64 London EMMANUEL Adebayor has given Arsenal fans cause for worry, after insisting no player could turn down the chance to play for Barcelona. Last week, it was reported that Adebayor had asked for £80,000 ($215,000) a week to stay with
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      900 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS AP, REUTERS SOCCER Coach wants Russian side to keep stars after 2-0 Uefa Cup win London DICK Advocaat turned the tables on his former Glasgow Rangers team as he masterminded Zenit St. Petersburg's 2-0 Uefa Cup final win. "Winning a
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      466 65 LOS ANGELES TIMES BASKETBALL Los Angeles KOBE'S back? The Los Angeles Lakers had it. And the guys who collapsed in pain were dressed in Jazz. On a night when Kobe Bryant's sore back limited him, his maligned teammates hoisted him. The Lakers lead the best-of-seven
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      201 65 ASSOCIATED PRESS KEVIN Garnett had 26 points and 16 rebounds, Raj on Rondo added 20 points and 13 assists, as the Bostom Celtics beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 96-89 on Wednesday. Paul Pierce scored 29 and helped shut down Leßron James for much
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      240 65 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London ZENIT St Petersburg defender Kirn Dong Jin on Wednesday reminded the world that Manchester United winger Park Ji Sung is not the only Korean international playing top-class football in Europe. Kirn, whose side won the Uefa Cup after
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      354 65  -  Leonard Lim BODYBUILDING By TWO bodybuilders who failed dope tests at last month's National Championships have waived their right for their "B" samples to be tested. This means that Peter Leow Beng Wah and Muhammad Hairi Rahman will be slapped with
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      649 66  -  Leonard Lim ATHLETICS They say scheme is unrealistic as it does not allow for gradual peaking By A CONTROVERSIAL Singapore Athletic Association scheme aimed at raising standards in the sport could result in doing the reverse instead if the response of elite athletes to
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      94 66 For the Tokyo Games in 1964, the Japanese were supremely confident of winning the women's volleyball gold the first time the sport was played at the Olympics. But North Korea withdrew from the Games for political reasons, leaving the volleyball competition with just five teams too
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        69 66 ASSOCIATED PRESS Madrid: Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has been given approval by his Spanish club Barcelona to join defending champions Argentina if they want him to play at the Beijing Olympics in August. "We've already talked it out," Messi said. "I've spoken with many
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        55 66 XINHUA TIANJIN: Gao Jian, director of the Chinese gymnastics administrative centre, declined to comment on a question whether China will have a clean-sweep of all the nine gymnastics gold medals. "We have made steady progress in international competitions, but we should never become
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        50 66 XINHUA BEIJING: More than 5,000 translators are on standby to ensure nothing gets lost in translation. Zhao Huimin, director of the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympics, said: "We have recruited over 5,000 translators of all the 55 languages. Most of them are Beijing-based university students."
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      714 66  -  Lin Xinyi By THE national women's table tennis team were given a reality check in their bid to end Singapore's 48-year wait for an Olympic medal. The team comprising Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei were ousted 1-3 by South Korea in the
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      272 66 REUTERS Ankara TURKEY'S triple Olympic champion Halil Mutlu wants to become the first weightlifter to win four Olympic gold medals when he competes in Beijing after a two-year doping ban. "I want to be the first weightlifter who has ever won four consecutive
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      209 66 ATHLETICS Athletes pay between 15 and 30 per cent if they fall short of targets set at local meets. SAA pays the bill in full: If athlete's mark is less than 2 per cent away from set target. Athlete pays 15 per cent: If his mark
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      Lock icon 'If I were Henin, I'd quit too'
      514 67 ASSOCIATED PRESS »TENNIS Sharapova, who takes over as No. 1, says Belgian has achieved so much in her career Rome WHILE many are surprised by the retirement of Justin Henin and Annika Sorenstam, their closest peers are looking to follow in their footsteps
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      Lock icon Nothing left to prove for Henin and Sorenstam
      778 67  -  Rohit Brijnath COMMENTARY By SOMETIMES the great athlete's exhausted mind complains and the tired body agrees, and together they say, no mas. No more. Enough. Justine Henin has lost the fire to compete. Annika Sorenstam has no appetite for the daily grind.
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      145 67 Race 8, 2,000m (Sunday, 7.50pm) Live, Ch22, 7.15pm No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier 1 Jay Peg H. Brown A. Marcus 7 2 Balius C. Laffon-Parias 0. Doleuze 10 3 Cosmo Bulk K. Tabe M. Matsuoka 9 4 Mourilyan H. Brown W. Marwing 3 5 Sir Slick G.
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      Lock icon Greater sacrifices, less money make women stars quit
      639 67 BLOOMBERG NEWS By John Helyar WOMEN'S tennis lost its best backhand and golf lost its sweetest swing in the space of two days. What do the retirements of Justine Henin and Annika Sorenstam have in common? They make excruciatingly clear just how
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      237 67 Rocky Marciano He remains the only heavyweight in boxing history to retire undefeated, with a professional record of 49-0, 43 of them by knockout. Marciano was the champion from 1952 to the day he retired in April 1956, aged 32.
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      Lock icon HORSE RACING Jay Peg's trainer smiles after barrier draw
      461 67  -  Craig Brennan Michael Lee By THERE was mixed reaction from connections, following yesterday's post position draw for both the Group 1 $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup and the $1 million KrisFlyer International Sprint on Sunday. The draw, conducted at Chevron
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      529 68  -  Soh Kai Wee SPORTS IN SCHOOLS Squash convener errs in giving permission to ACS(I) player, 15, to play in the A Division instead of B Division By BRYAN Koh, the Under-17 national squash champion, has been left in the lurch following a wrong call by a convener. The
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      238 68 This week in schools SOCCER Schools National c'ships, A Girls: Victoria JC 1 Saint Andrew's JC 1 (VJC bt SAJC 6-5 on penalties) Third: Raffles JC Fourth: Meridian JC. VOLLEYBALL Schools National c'ships, A Boys: Nanyang JC bt Temasek JC 3-0 (NYJC): Benny Lav, Ying Fu, Goh Jun Rui,
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      214 68 VALERIE CHIA NANYANG Junior College (in red) continued their dominance by capturing their fourth schools' national A Division volleyball title in five years yesterday. They defeated Temasek JC (in white) 25-23, 25-16, 25-15, with a masterful performance that centred around a solid defence that made
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      250 68 VALERIE CHIA IT WAS a match pitting two former champions. So when defending champions Saint Andrew's Junior College and 2006 winners Victoria Junior College (yellow) clashed in Wednesday's Schools' National A Division Girls' soccer final, many had anticipated a close affair. Not many among the
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      215 68 VALERIE CHIA RACHEL Chee is not one to get nervous easily. But on Wednesday, the 15-year-old Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School student was a bundle of nerves, when she met athletes from the table tennis, badminton and basketball national squads. Said the table tennis player:
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      275 68 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE CRICKET New Delhi INDIA bowler Harbhajan Singh was barred for five one-day internationals on Wednesday for slapping a teammate and warned of a life ban if he stepped out of line again. The off-spinner, 27, will miss next month's triangular one-day series in
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        46 68 SINGAPORE golfer Lam Chih Bing fired his second seven-under-par 65 yesterday to maintain his lead at the Mercedes-Benz Masters Indonesia. The 31-year-old holds a four-stroke lead over Malaysia's Danny Chia. Malaysian Rashid Ismail is in third spot, seven behind Lam.
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        54 68 MIDDLESBROUGH goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer will be in Singapore today and tomorrow to conduct goalkeeping clinics for youngsters. The Australian international will be at Jalan Besar Stadium today from spm-6pm to coach aspiring shot-stoppers from the National Football Academy, the Centres of Excellence, the Singapore Sports School
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      Lock icon China face Indonesia in the final
      415 69 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BADMINTON Powerful Chinese and hosts Indonesia both triumph 3-1 Jakarta IT WAS back to business for China yesterday as they raced to the Über Cup badminton final, pounding South Korea 3-1. Only Indonesia stand in their way of a sixth consecutive title.
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      367 69 BADMINTON Über Cup in Jakarta s-finals: China 3 South Korea 1, Indonesia 3 Germany 1. BASKETBALL NBA 2nd rd play-offs (best-of-seven series) Eastern Conference: Boston 96 Cleveland 89 (Boston lead series 3-2). Western Conference: Los Angeles Lakers 111 Utah 104 (Los Angeles lead series 3-2). GOLF Mercedes-Benz Masters in
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      132 68 TV times BADMINTON: Thomas Cup: S-finals (Live, Ch22 and RTMI, 2pm). BASKETBALL: NBA play-offs Conference s-finals, Game 6: New Orleans v San Antonio (Live, Ch24, 9am). CRICKET: NPower Test Series, Ist Test, day 2: England v New Zealand (Live, Chi 10, 5.58pm). IPL: Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders (Live,
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      268 69 TAY GEK CHOO Age: 92 passed away peacefully on 14 May 2008, dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Ong Theng Swee (Deceased) Sister: Lim Keow Ngo Sons: Daughters-in-law: Grandsons: Granddaughter-in-law: Ong Chin Sim, Robert Ng Lee Hong Ong Yuan Jun, Dave Lim Gek Peng Ong Chin Whee,
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      140 69 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Tim 4:7 BARBARA CHEW Age: 59 was called home to the Lord on 14 May 2008. Deeply loved and dearly missed by: Father: Mother: Peter Chew (Josephine Lim, deceased) Son: Daughter-in-law: Collin Leong
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      38 69 The Family of The Late ONG KIM JOO Departed 12 May 2008 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      165 69 THOMAS TOH SIOWTONG Age: 85 was called home to be with the Lord on 15 May 2008. Spouses: Irene Ho Vim Lan Freda Lim Choy Sin Sons: Daughters-in-law: (Henry Toh, deceased) Lucy Hia Simon Toh Geri Tay Paul Toh Veronica Young Daughters: Sons-in-law: (Helen Toh, deceased) Rick Clements Catherine Toh
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      34 69 We Express Our Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Mr Collin Leong Family on the demise of his beloved mother MDM BARBARA CHEW Departed on 14 May 2008 From The Management Staff of IBM Singapore
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      150 69 'Surety goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.' Psalm 23:6 LEE YONG YAP Age: 67 was called home to be with the Lord on 15 May 08, leaving behind loved ones. Children: Mother: (Lee
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      27 69 12th Anniversary I In Loving Memory of MATTHEW ONG HAK SIONG Departed: 16 May 1996 Always remembered and cherished by Parents, Brothers, Godsons and all loved ones.
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      53 69 Second Anniversary In Loving Memory of ANDREW TAY TIANG SONG (Founder of T. S. Tay Associates) Departed on 16 May 2006 Your presence is ever near us, Your love remains with us yet; You were the kind of father, Your loved ones will never forget. Always cherished and remembered by
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      53 135 #:t: In Loving Memory of 2:: MR PETER FONG SOO YEE Departed on 25th April 2008 We wish to bid farewell to our dearest partner and colleague, a great man, with big ideas Dearly missed and cherished by The Management Staff of TPCO TIANJIN PIPE (GROUP) CORPORATION TIANJIN PIPE INTERNATIONAL
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      107 135 ONG HENG KWEE Age: 91 Passed away peacefully on 15 May 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Gan Eng Neo (deceased) Son: Daughter-in-law: Terence Ong Normala Bte Hamid Daughters: Son-in-law: Jenny Ong Jacob Tan Margaret Ong Grandchildren: Spouses: Suzanne Tan Shelton Sim Serene Tan Ernie Chan
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      117 135 TAN GUAT KEOW Age: 69 passed away peacefully on 14 May 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Goh Han Sin Charlie Daughter: Son-in-law: Goh Lay Hua Chng Kwang Yong Brother: Tan Siong Hee Ronnie Sister-in-law: Kang See Moi Sister: Brother-in-law: Tan Guat Choo Ng Yap Seng
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      49 135 "The Lord is my light and my salvation..." Psalm 27:1 DING YEW MOONi 6.11.59 16.5.99 Always fondly remembered, loved treasured in our hearts Sadly missed by: Chris, April, Jamie, Parents: Ding Siew Ngie Lay Le Brothers Sisters-in-law: Yew Yoong Tee Im Yew Hoong Terri k all friends and relativf
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      98 135 "The Lord is my Shpherd, I shall not be in want... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23 TAN LUCY Age: 76 was called home to be with the Lord on 14/05/08, leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Jude Lee, deceased) 2 sons, 2 daughters-in-law,
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      65 135 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of T. LOGANATHAN Departed on 16 May 2007 "Of one we will never forget, His absence to us is a sorrow His loss we will always regret." Dearly missed fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Catherine Kamala Son: Melvyn Jeevan Daughter: Clara Shanti Son-in-law: Jude
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      81 135 The Family of the late Manesh Chandra Dutt (Departed on 8 May 2008) wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, neighbours, colleagues, the Bengali Association Singapore, and the Malaysian Bengali Association, for their attendance, condolences, prayers, donations, wreaths, kind assistance, their words of comfort and sharing
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      49 135 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of CHAN MUN KWONG Departed on 16 May 2007. We cannot forget you Our loved one so dear; Your memory grows Sweeter year after year. Always remembered by: Wife Geraldine Tan Chan Wah Daughter: Son-in-law: Dr Marieta Chan Dr Kelvin Koh Grandchildren Lynelle Leithan
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      50 135 The Family of the Late LEE SEI HOI Departed on 9 May 2008 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations, wreaths and support during their recent bereavement. Baylink Logistics Pte Ltd PT Baylink Indonesia
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      44 135 lW5r In Loving Memory of MR PETER FONG SOO YEE Departed on 25th April 2008 He will be remembered as a mentor, a true friend, a well-liked boss Dearly missed and cherished by The Management Staff of a Tubular resources TUBULAR RESOURCES PTE LTD
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      112 135 "I will not be afraid Lord, for you are with me." Dt 20:1 Roland Aloysius Klyne was called home to be with Jesus on 15 May 2008, sadly missed by: Children: Siblings: Jacqueline Rehman Myrtle Caroline Daphne Tommy Ronald Majella Maureen Sharon Francis Merle Charmaine Dhillon Bradley Nicole Caregivers: Berna,
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      68 135 HO FOONG ANG Age: 56 passed away peacefully on 14 May 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Mother: Lee Yuet Ying Husband: Chee Fong Thim Sons: Chui Shao Wei Chui Shao Xiong brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces. Wake is held at Singapore Casket (Ruby Room, 4th Floor). Cortege will
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      34 135 Memory wanders as shadows fell Saclctothedatjs of happiness, Days beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep.
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        6901 70 TRANSACTION DATE: MAY 15, 200S 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL '000 DAY HIGH LOW NET P/E M CAP SMIL 0R28 5 11C 3C 24 5 42 141 195 15 24 18 61 17 5 15 43 5 126 34 5 16 144
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        1465 70 52-WEEK 1EL HIGH LOW CODE SMIL COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL ORDAV 'OOO HIGH NET LOW MCAP P/E 30 41.; 31 16.; 38 70.; 22.; 44.; li.; 44.; 78.; i;.; i; 16.; 17.1 9C 43 19.; 88 21 2.3 1 41.2 19.3 21 li.; 21.; 4;.; 14.;
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        51 70 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY T RAD ED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E SMIL 20C 620C 100C 1120C 1250C 398.3 3977.£ 116 6065 Diamonds 5200 6095 ISDJUSTech 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** 6170 SPDRS 288 6009 STI ETF 3013.7 6010 STIETFIOPV US200xd US100C US1120C US1250C
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      544 71 But senior economist says latest figures 'not worth the paper they were printed on' PETROL prices in the United States are up by more than 20 per cent from a year ago and food prices have risen 5 per cent
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      395 71 BLOOMBERG NEWS Washington FEDERAL Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke pushed United States banks to keep raising capital so they can help the economy by expanding lending as the global credit crisis wanes. "I strongly urge financial institutions to remain proactive in their
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      305 71 BLOOMBERG NEWS Chicago GENERAL Electric (GE) may sell, spin off or seek a partner for its large-appliance unit, ending more than a century in an industry that helped make the company a household name, people familiar with the situation said. GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt, who
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      34 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 14,251.74 (+133.19 points) Japanese shares closed up 0.94 per cent at a fresh four-month high after overnight gains on Wall Street and an upbeat earnings outlook from Sony.
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      34 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 25,513.71 (-19.77 points) Hong Kong stocks closed little changed, as gains by firms expected to benefit from post-quake rebuilding in China offset profit-taking in some large-cap stocks.
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      31 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 3,637.32 (-20.11 points) Chinese shares edged down 0.55 per cent, led by banks, as investors booked profits after a significant rebound in the previous session.
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      26 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,890.7 (+lB points) Australian shares closed 0.3 per cent higher to fresh four-month highs, as takeover activity boosted the market.
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      35 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,294.15 (+6.41 points) Malaysian shares closed 0.5 per cent higher, lifted by gains in plantation majors and select blue chips, as investors took their cue from Wall Street's advance.
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      23 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 17,353.54 (+375.19 points) Indian stocks rose 2.21 per cent, led by local mutual funds after US stocks rallied.
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      35 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,449.81 (+0.47 points) Indonesian shares closed little changed, with the main index giving up its early gains, as investors started to pocket profits made from the recent three-day rally.
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      24 71 AFP Yesterday's close: 855.61 (+6.67 points) Thai shares closed 0.79 per cent higher, with investors upbeat on impressive first-quarter corporate earnings.
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      102 71 Capita Land.... 6.710 +0.090 CapitaMall 3.600 +0.030 CityDev ...11.700 Cosco Corp.. 3.510 +0.100 DBS Grp ...20.060 +0.040 F&N 4.990 +0.060 Sent Intl 0.575 HK Land 4.860 -0.130 ISH ...18.800 +0.380 lardine C&C ...17.160 +0.060 Keppel Corp Keppel Land NOL ...11.500 +0.380 5.760 +0.060 3.880 +0.120 Noble
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      58 71 May 15,***** May 15 May 15 OUIIfIU M-OjtUOjUUU Mercator 39,734,000 China Hongxing 35,654,000 Celestial 29,824,000 Informatics 28,026,000 Cosco Corp 27,673,000 SingTel 25,261,000 SingTel DBeCW*****8 25,030,000 CoscoCorpDBeCW*****9 24,979,000 Ferrochina 24,448,000 UUIUGII Hgl I £0,3J0,UUU JES 23,782,000 ChinaEratat 20,320,000 Yangzijiang 19,950,000 DBS DB eCW081D13 18,820,000 SingTelMBLePW*****0 16,978,000 Liang Huat 16,811,000
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      135 71 May 15 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT )F FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling lust dollar 1.2790 1.2950 Ian dollar 1.3670 1.3840 iuro 2.1240 2.1480 (lalaysian ringgit* ..0.4222 0.4231 <Z dollar 1.0360 1.0580 Sterling pound 2.6720 2.7030 JS dollar 1.3740 1.3900 SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO 100
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      1593 71 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: MAY 15,2008 52-WLLK ILL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY TRADED Y LAS I Vt SALE /OLUMb '000 22 5 3 5 3666 CapitalanBNPeCW*****9 10 +1 23 5 4 5 3804 CapitalanMBLeCW*****2 42C 51 315 4304 CapitalanMBLeCW*****2 39 5 -0 5 10C 32 18 4305 CapitalanMBLeCW*****3
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      432 72 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, BLOOMBERG NEWS Billionaire investoi launching proxy contest to unseat latter's directors Washington MR CARL Icahn, the investor famous for forcing companies to change their strategies, plans to launch a proxy battle this week to gain power on Yahoo's
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      310 72 REUTERS Boston APPLE has unveiled its largest store in the United States, a glass-facade building sheathed in steel that a senior company official said reflects its plans to expand retail ventures at home and abroad. Sandwiched between ageing brick buildings, the minimalist 20,000
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      652 74  -  Fiona Chan Prices also show signs of weakening as buyers adopt a more cautious stance By Property Reporter THE private home market continued to weaken last month, with launches of new homes falling to their lowest level in at least
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      349 74 By Grace Ng DBS Bank is raising $1.5 billion to help fund growth by selling preference shares to institutions and other corporate investors, it said last night. "The offering saw extremely strong demand and we are very pleased with the market acceptance of
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      444 74  -  Joyce Teo By PROPERTY tycoon Kwek Leng Beng has warned that most property investors follow the herd instinct and wait too long in a cautious market then make a wrong move. The executive chairman of City Developments (CDL) said he
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      353 74  -  Fiona Chan By THE sub-prime crisis in the United States is starting to weaken Asian property markets, said the real estate arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) yesterday. GIC Real Estate president Seek Ngee Huat told a regional property conference
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      262 74  -  Jessica Cheam By ASIAN firms and investors are taking an increasing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR), a top regional banker said yesterday. Practices by companies that reflect these concerns present opportunities for financial investments, said Merrill Lynch's Pacific Rim president, Mr Jason
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      155 75 ON TOP: OCBC Bank led the profits chart with its $622 million showing, trumping analysts' forecast of $570 million last week. Net Profit (S$M) Current Turnover (S$M) Current Company Previous Change Previous Change OCBC 622.00 647.00 -3.9 1182.00 1106.00 6.9 Golden Agri 611.54 302.83 101.9 1032.20 380.25 171.5
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      503 75  -  Alvin Foo Volatile markets, higher raw material costs and possible US recession could hurt bottom lines By CORPORATE Singapore enjoyed a sparkling first quarter despite the threat of a worldwide economic slowdown, spiralling inflation and a global credit crunch. And while analysts warn that
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      424 75  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK By ASIAN bourses got a boost yesterday from better-than-expected inflation data out of the United States, which also sent Wall Street higher overnight. At the same time, a key cause of inflation, soaring oil prices, gave a
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        340 75 ALVIN FOO A DIRECTOR of one of Cosco Corp's subsidiaries raised his direct stake in the Chinese shipbuilder recently. Mr Zhou Xie Dong bought 50,000 Cosco shares on the open market at $3.39 each on Tuesday, according to Singapore Exchange filings. The trade was
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      63 75 (0) May 15 CENTS KepCorp MBLiCW*****3 473 61.0 GLD 10USS 8560 57.9 ISH 1880 52.4 Keppel Corp 1150 38.0 KepCorp MBLiCW*****0 380 24.0 SI A 1602 24.0 KepCorp SGAeCW*****1 51 21.5 OUE 1420 20.0 SIA200 1600 20.0 DBSMBUCW*****0 659 17.0 Haw Par Corp 728 16.0 NOL 388 12.0
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      60 75 May 15 CENTS (epCorp BNPeCW*****7 1.5 200.0 1. ;hasen 1 100.0 0. Jigiland 1 100.0 0. .exiconGrp W*****0 1 100.0 0. (epCorp SGAeCW*****1 51 72.9 21. (epCorp BNPeCW*****1 5 66.7 2. ;oscoCorpRBeCW*****7 1.5 50.0 0. (epCorp BNPeCW*****3 .26.5 43.2 8. SiantWTech 13.5 35.0 3. (epCorp RBeCW*****3 2 33.3
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      61 75 (0) May 15 IMH DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 BHT StraitsAsia HKLand Unisteel fanlord SembMar RSH Ltd SinoEnv Star Hub IndoAgri CENTS 3396 88.3 ***** 40.0 1860 20.0 370 18.0 486 17.9 165 13.0 249 12.0 412 11.0 140 10.0 176 8.0 287 8.0 235 7.0 C 1
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      69 75 May 15 CENTS DBS RB eCW*****6 0.5 83.3 SingTelSGAeCW*****4 2.5 50.0 UOB DB ePW*****9 1 50.0 Wilmar MBLeCW*****4 3 33.3 Wilmar SGA eCW*****2 2.5 28.6 TopGlobal 1.5 25.0 CapitalanMBLePW***** 3.5 22.2 DBS DB ePW*****GA 4 20.0 Gul Tech 6 20.0 SembHar BNPeCW*****6 6 20.0 Plato 6.5 18.8 STI
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      495 76  -  Chua Hian Hou Hyde Park will put aside $75m to fund major movies and cross-cultural films with broad appeal By SINGAPORE has landed a starring role in the Asian movie scene, thanks to a Hollywood production company's move to set up
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      113 76 HYDE Park Entertainment chief executive Ashok Amritraj (right) plans to spend his $75 million Asian fund on a "mixture of major Hollywood films and cross-cultural titles aimed at a global audience". Media projects like animated features or video games may also be considered. He
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      8 76 UP DOWN Gainers: 334 Losers: 274 Unchanged: 953
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      86 76 Mid Cap 821.88 A 1.70 Small Cap 685.43 A 5.16 All Share 820.92 A 2.64 Fledgling 723.30 T -3.22 China 498.47 A 7.13 Oil and gas 794.41 A 7.53 Basic materials 667.86 T -0.69 Industrials 769.96 A 8.47 Consumer goods 815.09 A 7.56 Health care 847.69
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      224 76 CHIAYAN MIN CONSUMERS SPENDING MORE THE value of petrol sales in March soared 39 per cent, as a result of rising crude oil prices even though the actual volume was only marginally higher. Petrol station sales posted the fastest growth of all retail
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      60 77 •Merchant terms and conditions apply. Please visit www.ocbc.com for details. Saxophonist Sonny Rollins overcame drug and alcohol addictions to forge a reputation as jazz's colossus of improvisation. EDDINO ABDUL HADI talks to the living legend, who plays at the Esplanade on May 28. nanps?£r* tiWQtij^^&X GvjgwK^y paye^oo
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      1178 78  -  Eddino Abdul Hadi ON Sept 11, 2001, jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins was in his New I York apartment six blocks away from the World Trade Center twin towers. He saw the planes fly into the building in the worst terrorist attack on his beloved city. The 77-year-old
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      483 79 Reuters SALZBURG, Austria The Sound Of Music, one of Hollywood's greatest moneyspinners, will scale new heights when the original yon Trapp family villa near Salzburg opens as a hotel in July. The 1965 Oscar-winning film, based on the true story of how aspiring nun Maria
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      160 79 From previous page Saxophone Colossus (1956, right) Rollins is backed by pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins and pioneering bebop drummer Max Roach in this landmark album which blends melodic listenability with Rollins' signature improvisatory genius. Way Out West (1957) Rollins pioneered the piano-less set-up, soloing on
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      472 80  -  Bernard Koh Erik Reichenbach blames the Black Widow alliance for his big blunder WATCHING season after season of Survivor did little to prevent die-hard fan-turned-castaway Erik Reichenbach from becoming the "dumbest Survivor ever" in the 16-season history of the CBS reality television show. In last Friday's episode
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      359 80 LONDON Sometimes it seems Paul McCartney (below) can't win for losing. The former Beatle has long been an outspoken advocate of environmental causes and animal rights. He is a vegetarian who won't wear leather shoes. But now he's being criticised for having a hybrid Japanese car
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      471 81  -  Adeline Chia Journey through 2,500 years of Vietnam's history in a festival to mark 35 years of diplomatic ties ARTS REPORTER VIETNAM fever is hitting museums here. To mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and Vietnam, the National Heritage Board (NHB) is organising a four-month-long
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      463 81  -  Tara Tan TONY Award-winning couple Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo (above) are joined at the hip literally. Critically acclaimed as one of the hottest Argentinian Tango couples today, the hus-band-and-wife team practises all day and then goes home together. Both are coming here for Tango Madness Singapore,
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      806 82 A dry water ballet with dancers in swimsuits will be Arts Festival curtain-raiser Adeline Chia ARTS REPORTER A FLOCK of "swimmers" will make a splash at the gala performance that opens the Singapore Arts Festival. Described as a dry water ballet, The Architecture Of Silence, conceived and choreographed
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        93 84 PHOTOS: L The streets are full of Heavenly Kings now' Singer Gary Chaw (above) on the proliferation of wannabe superstars 'A girl should do as she pleases and a man should let her do as she pleases' Actor Jordan Chan, 40, on girlfriend Cherrie Ying, 24 'He can drink
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        629 84  -  Frankie Chee Carlsberg hopes to take Tiger by the tail when Euro 2008 kicks off next month Singapore is well-known for its love of soccer, especially the English Premier League (EPL), so it's no wonder that Carlsberg, which sponsors Liverpool in the EPL, is going in
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        316 84 SOME of its foaming beer may be made in Asia now, but Carlsberg's heartland is its original 160-year-old brewery in Denmark's capital of Copenhagen. The brewery has been churning out bottles of beer daily without stop, but come this November, the off-switch will be flipped, never to
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        571 85  -  Tara Tan Chinese ink artist Wang Zijiang will turn a blank canvas into an artwork in just 15 minutes ARTS REPORTER CHINESE ink artist Wang Zijiang is known for his IOOm-long murals that adorn shrines in Japan. And soon, Singapore will have paintings by the maestro
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        369 85  -  Tara Tan MEMBERS of the classical music scene here are in mourning. Mr Choo Hwee Lim (below), one of the founding directors of the Singapore Lyric Opera, died on Monday at age 76 of heart failure. The music maestro had been plagued by ill
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        757 86  -  couchgrouch New mama drama Army Wives is easy to watch with characters that seem real Tay Yek Keak I'VE been stuck at home watching a new drama series about people who are stuck at home. Home, as Army Wives shows, is a big place an entire every-body-knows-everybody
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        593 87  -  Eddino Abdul Hadi Trumpeter Chris Botti has it all: good looks, talent and hot gigs MUSIC REPORTER JAZZ trumpeter Chris Botti is not just a pretty face. True, for his blond good looks, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 2004. And
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        359 88  -  Yeow Kai Chai Can a white man sing like a black bro' and still work his mojo? Jamie Lidell can. And, man, he's good soundbites >soul ALBUM OF THE WEEK JIM Jamie Udell Warp FOR years, blue-eyed soul has been received with, at best, mild amusement and,
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        130 88 FOR GOOD: BALLYHOO!!! Aging Youth Music For Good NEVER mind American Idol the real action can be heard right here on our shores. Courtesy of home-grown label Aging Youth and arts organisation Music For Good, here's an intriguing appetiser comprising 12 low-key and hitherto unheard of local acts. Range
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        147 88 BEAUTIFUL MESS Swing Out Sister Avex Trax I'VE always had a soft spot for the 1980s duo Swing Out Sister: the way Corinne Drewery breaks out into big-hearted white-soul pop, her jet-black bob swinging and eyes as large as Twiggy's. Beautiful Mess, their I,oooth album but once again only
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