The Straits Times, 19 March 2009

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    18 1 MICA (P) 191/11/2008 THURSDAY, MARCH 19 2009 «j^ AN SPH PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 90 CENTS THE STRAITS TIMES.
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      Lock icon Obesity takes years off
      55 1 PEOPLE who are very fat risk shaving 10 years off their life, similar to what lifelong smokers could experience, the largest study of its kind has found. Also, moderately fat people are 50 per cent more likely to die before their time than those with normal
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      Lock icon Outrage over bonuses
      57 1 AIG came under further fire over its employee bonuses, with the Obama administration saying the embattled insurer will be forced to repay taxpayers before it gets another bailout of US$3O billion (5545.8 billion). AIG boss Edward Liddy was hauled over the coals yesterday by US lawmakers furious
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      Lock icon Prepared to spend
      55 1 SINGAPOREANS will spend if the price is right. The sales at recent fairs, such as the four-day IT show which raked in a record $58.5 million, are proof of this, experts said. They added that big discounts may not lead to big profits, but retailers have to
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      Lock icon RBS selling S'pore assets
      68 1 THE Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has confirmed that it is selling off its retail and commercial banking operations in Singapore. These include its credit card operations, wealth management, and business with small and mediumsized firms, affecting up to 660 staff. RBS is now reviewing its
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      Lock icon Disquiet over disqualified
      58 1 MALACCA Chief Minister Ali Rustam yesterday appealed for calm as his supporters seethed o\ LJmno's decision to di trim from running in party polls next week The ban on Tuesda over allegations of vote-buying took out the favourite in the race for Umno deputy president, who will
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    Lock icon Rare dengue type on the rise in Singapore
    603 1  -  Jessica Jaganathan Alert for Den-3 virus, which can cause a major outbreak if not contained By DENGUE numbers are down but public health officers are on high alert. The reason: An unfamiliar dengue virus has emerged which has the potential to spark
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    Lock icon Merlion wars again, repairs continue
    101 1 WITH its head all patched up, the Merlion was back in action yesterday and spouting water again. The national icon was closed for repair last month, when it was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. The strike cracked a piece of the Merlion's mane, which
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    Lock icon Newton stall ordered closed for 3 months
    575 1  -  Yen Feng By Other seafood stall owners said their business had slumped since the "$3O tiger prawns" dispute made the news. A worker at the neighbouring Stall 46, also a seafood hawker, said: "How's business? What do you think? This is my busiest
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        Lock icon Saving Sim Lim Square from itself
        64 2 WE SAY Shopping at Sim Lim Square should not be the gamble it long has been for electronics buyers. With Consumers Association of Singapore joining the mall's management in efforts to keep the place honest, with a Case Trust accreditation scheme, customers may have
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        Lock icon Keep your global strategy
        27 2 COLUMNS Singapore companies should not retreat from the policy of venturing abroad during the economic crisis, says Nitin Pangarkar. REVIEW PAGE A 24
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        Lock icon Bear to let 'em bare
        29 2 What message is the university sending when it expelled a group of undergraduate streakers from their hostel, asks Stephanie Yap. LIFE! PAGE C 6
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        Lock icon Mandarin versus dialects
        26 2 OUR READERS SAY Readers Ong Siew Chey and Patrick Khoo debate whether Singaporeans should speak Mandarin rather than dialects. FORUM PAGE A 25
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        Lock icon ONLINE BLOGS
        14 2 www.straitstimes.com Jayandra Menon looks to the future as Timor Leste moves on.
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    • Article
      Lock icon What it should have been
      62 2 In the picture which ran with yesterday's report "Over $3 million raised", one of the guests at the Asian Youth Games function was identified as the Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Singapore, Mr Kamrul Ahsan. The Singapore Sports Council, which provided the information, has clarified that
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      Lock icon Insurers, help rein in costs
      972 2  -  Christopher Tan Industry has to examine itself to curb runaway motor accident claims By I SENIOR CORRESPONDENT MOTOR insurers have collectively fingered workshops, tow-truck operators, lawyers, doctors and motorists at large for runaway claims. And they have cited, time and again, these claims as the
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      Lock icon AIG ordered to return $252m bonus payouts
      475 3 "Mistakes were made at AIG on a scale few could have ever imagined possible." Mr Edward Liddy, AlG's government-appointed CEO Mistakes were made, says AIG boss; Obama seeks tougher regulation WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has turned up the heat on AIG over its
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      Lock icon Being obese can shorten life by up to 10 years
      568 4 Staying trim, avoiding weight gain is best, large-scale study finds LONDON: Being obese can take years off your life and in some cases may be as dangerous as smoking, a new study found. In the largest-ever investigation of how obesity
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      Lock icon BMI for BMI, Asians are at greater risk
      450 4  -  Salma Khalik MNMB HEALTH CORRESPONDENT Body Mass Index and death rates BODY Mass Index (BMI) is a measurement used to determine obesity. It is the ratio between a person's weight in kilograms and the square of his or her height in metres
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      Lock icon Ex-Cortina man to be brought back today
      470 4  -  Khushwant Singh Sujin Thomas By THE man believed to be behind a $13 million watch heist is expected to be brought back to Singapore from Bangkok today. But first, Jerry Ec, 35, will have to settle with the Thai authorities an offence of
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      Lock icon Trading 'expert' faces more refund claims
      487 6  -  Sandra Davie Another 122 people go to tribunal to set back course fees paid to him By SENIOR WRITER Dubious degrees THE term "degree mill" refers to institutions that award academic degrees and diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without recognition by
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      Lock icon Hubble captures Saturn's moons
      147 6 This close-up view of Saturn, released by US space agency Nasa on Tuesday, captures the transit of several moons across the face of the gas-giant planet. The giant orange moon Titan larger than the planet Mercury can be seen at the upper right. The white icy
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      Lock icon Catering firm goes on crash diet
      1009 8  -  Yang Huiwen CUTTING COSTS, SAVING JOBS Purple Sage now focuses on value-for-money packages as high-end orders dwindle By Managing director Tony Scow halved his own salary in February. "If need be, I'll go unpaid. After all I'm an entrepreneur. I started off with nothing."
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      Lock icon Fine cuisine for corporate clients
      144 8 PURPLE Sage founder Tony Scow, 41, left his job at a telco to set up boutique catering firm Purple Sage in August 2002. The firm became well-known for its fine cuisine and emphasis on food and table presentation. It also provides decorations and gifts, helps
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      246 8 A CIA Set to be one of the year's most welcoming B J event worth waiting for, Asia Food Consumer Fair 2009 will house Asia's most JJ ff I R^B fl V "yummylious" delicacies and value-added |v U lIE I m consumer products all under one roof. Mi So come
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      Lock icon Malacca chief calms supporters
      543 10  -  Elizabeth Looi UMNO ELECTIONS Loyal lawmakers had threatened to quit party over his ban from polls By MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR: Malacca Chief Minister Ali Rustam appealed to his supporters for calm yesterday after they erupted in angry protests when he was banned from the coming
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      Lock icon Disqualification leads to disquiet in Umno
      676 10  -  Carolyn Hong NEWS ANALYSIS By MALAYSIA BUREAU CHIEF KUALA LUMPUR: Malacca Chief Minister Ali Rustam was ironically at a meet-the-candidates session on Tuesday when the news broke that he was disqualified from contesting the Umno deputy presidency. He was already prepared for the news,
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      Lock icon Zaid urges King not to appoint Najib as PM
      426 10 KUALA LUMPUR: Former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim (right) yesterday urged the Malaysian King not to appoint Datuk Seri Najib Razak as Malaysia's next premier, and appoint someone else from Umno instead. Mr Najib, currently Deputy Premier, "will most certainly
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        Lock icon Gandhi scion faces criminal charges
        664 12  -  P. Jayaram He may be jailed, barred from polls if convicted over anti-Muslim remarks By INDIA CORRESPONDENT HE DENIES ACCUSATIONS "It was not my voice, not my words. I'm a victim of political conspiracy." Varun Gandhi (above) NEW DELHI: A defiant Varun Gandhi, the lesser-known
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        Lock icon Accuser in US Marine rape case backtracks
        500 12  -  Alastair McIndoe By PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA: A Filipino woman whose claims resulted in a United States Marine sentenced to 40 years in jail for rape, has gone back on her testimony in a startling turnaround to a case that has strained relations between
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        Lock icon Thai PM launches new 'war on drugs'
        368 12 BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday launched a new "war on drugs". The move echoes a controversial 2003 campaign by ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra that left more than 2,500 people dead. Mr Abhisit, who came to power in December after the fall
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        Lock icon Coke's bid to buy Chinese juice maker fizzles out
        634 13 Beijing blocks $3.7b bid on antimonopoly grounds BEIJING: China yesterday rejected Coca-Cola's US$2.4 billion (553.7 billion) bid to buy a major Chinese fruit juice maker in a case that stirred nationalist opposition. The proposed purchase of Huiyuan Juice Group would have
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        Lock icon Aussie Senate reviews foreign investment
        299 13 POLITICAL pressures have cast a new shadow over Rio Tinto's planned US$l9.5 billion (5529.8 billion) tie-up with Chinese state-owned Chinalco, with Australia's Senate voting yesterday to hold an inquiry into foreign investment. Chinalco's plan to pay US$l2.3 billion for stakes in Rio iron ore, copper
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        Lock icon Importers should share emission costs, says China
        363 13 WASHINGTON: Countries that buy Chinese goods should be held partly responsible for the carbon dioxide emitted by the factories that make them in any global plan to reduce greenhouse gases, a Chinese official has said. "About 15 per cent to 25 per cent
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        Lock icon Pyongyang may stage 'limited' border clash
        454 15 North could provoke conflict as it launches rocket, says Seoul SEOUL: North Korea is likely to stage a limited clash on the border with South Korea when it launches a rocket early next month, Seoul's Ministry of Defence said yesterday. "There is a good
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        Lock icon Brunei denies Sarawak border dispute resolved
        241 15 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei has denied claims that the sultanate and Malaysia had resolved their territorial dispute over Limbang in Sarawak. Brunei's Second Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng, on Tuesday set the record straight by denying there was
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        Lock icon China police ordered to forgo nightclub invitations
        375 15 BEIJING: China has banned police from accepting invitations to nightclubs, bars and other entertainment venues in a bid to thwart corruption, state media reported yesterday. As the government tightens discipline on the police force, a recent survey showed that most Chinese are unlikely
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    • world international
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        Lock icon Suicide bomber hits S. Korean convoy
        349 16 Officials were in Yemen to probe Sunday's attack SANA (Yemen): A suicide bomber yesterday struck a convoy carrying South Korean officials sent to Yemen to investigate a bombing earlier in the week that killed four tourists from the country. The three-car convoy was carrying
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        Lock icon US may widen targets in Pakistan
        504 17 Calls for operations to go beyond border tribal regions to Quetta city, a sanctuary for militants "We believe such attacks are counter-productive...They are not helpful in our efforts to win hearts and minds." Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit, on US missile strikes within
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        Lock icon Americans in no mood to spend
        824 19  -  Bhagyashree Garekar Many are sobered by downturn, even as the economy needs more to loosen purse strings By US CORRESPONDENT 'NO' TO DONATIONS "Over the years, we've been increasing our contributions to them (charities). Sadly, this year, we had to let that go." Mrs
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        Lock icon Sick with worry over health costs
        273 19 VIRTUALLY all Americans fear that health costs are a threat to their personal financial security, and 80 per cent said the US system works poorly, according to a survey released on Tuesday. "They think it is wasteful, inefficient, complex and expensive," Dr Paul Keckley,
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        Lock icon Pope draws flak on Africa visit with condom remarks
        409 19 PARIS: The Pope has begun a visit to Aids-ravaged Africa under a cloud, after saying that condom use was worsening the problem on the continent. His comments sparked widespread criticism that they were unrealistic, unscientific and dangerous. France voiced "sharp concern"
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        Lock icon Man cleared of murder after 27 years
        335 19 LONDON: The appeal court yesterday cleared a man who has spent 27 years behind bars for murder, in one of Britain's longest cases of wrongful imprisonment. The Lord Chief Justice and two other judges ruled that Mr Scan Hodgson's conviction for the murder
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        Lock icon Dad admits all charges
        622 21 AUSTRIAN ENSLAVEMENT TRIAL He changes his plea after hearing daughter's testimony; calls his own behaviour 'sick' ST POELTEN (Austria): In a stunning turn of events, a man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children yesterday admitted all charges
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          Lock icon Over 2m jobless Britons
          61 21 LONDON: The number of people claiming jobless benefits in recession-hit Britain stands above two million for the first time in 12 years, official data showed yesterday. Britain's unemployment rate jumped to 6.5 per cent in the three months ending in January, which is also the highest
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          Lock icon A space first for Japan
          79 21 WASHINGTON: The shuttle Discovery docked yesterday with the International Space Station to deliver the first Japanese to live there, as well as key parts to complete construction of the orbiting outpost. The Discovery crew, including Dr Koichi Wakata, will install two pairs of solar panels
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          Lock icon US backs UN's gay move
          88 21 WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday announced its support for a United Nations declaration decriminalising homosexuality, a move that was rejected by former president George W. Bush. The US will join 66 countries, including all members of the European Union, in backing the measure put forward
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          Lock icon Child bride: Cleric held
          131 21 JAKARTA: A Muslim cleric who married a 12-year-old girl in Indonesia has been detained for violating child protection laws. Mr Pujiono Cahyo Widianto, 43, wed the girl before thousands in Central Java province last August. He said he had committed no crime because he planned to
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          Lock icon China pays for weddings
          130 21 BEIJING: China will pay for a group wedding for 40 survivors who lost spouses in last year's Sichuan earthquake to help them make new families. Officials will be given priority. "Twenty families will finally be chosen, 10 of which must have one official at least, and
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          Lock icon Jayakumar in Australia
          81 21 SINGAPORE Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security S. Jayakumar is on a five-day working visit to Australia to discuss security cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. Professor Jayakumar, who arrived on Sunday, has met Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Deputy Prime Minister
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      95 10 Wm WHAT'S ONLINE MOST READ, MOST COMMENTED AND MORE WWW.StraitstimeS.COm rather than restricting our efforts to MOST-READ ONLINE harebrained carbon trading schemes." Mum seeks sex partner for son. YOUR SAY MOST COMMENTED Moderate obesity shortens lives by Climate change 'near irreversible. three years and the seriously obese will Says jiatianl979:
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      456 16 THE ECONOMIC CRISIS? The global financial crisis has already had an impact on the job market. Unemployment is rising. The world economy is in a recession. Do you feel your job or the company you own is safe? Are you prepared to lose your job or the company you own?
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES REVIEW & FORUM.
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      Lock icon Saving Sim Lim Square from itself
      434 22 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) may well succeed where merchants in Sim Lim Square have failed so far to eradicate the mall's notoriety. In getting the mall's management to join its Case Trust accreditation scheme, Case strengthens in-house efforts to reverse the slide.
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      Lock icon Taking China beyond global economics
      934 22  -  Wang Gungwu THINK-TANK By BANKS lose billions in the United States and Europe. Millions lose jobs in Asia. No one can miss the effects of economic globalisation. The new batches of Chinese unemployed may hope that their condition is only temporary. But globalisation will not
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      Lock icon Obama's first big leadership test
      906 22  -  Thomas Friedman By WHEN you hear a sitting United States senator call for bankers to commit suicide, you know that the anger level in the country is reaching a Bonfire Of The Vanities, get-out-the-pitchforks danger level. It is dangerous for so many reasons, but most
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        882 23  -  Nitin Pangarkar ST-NUS BUSINESS SCHOOL SERIES ON GLOBALISATION By THE past 18 months have been among the most turbulent in recent memory. As stock markets around the world have tanked and economic growth has plummeted, discussion has turned to protectionism in several different forms.
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        860 23  -  Tridivesh Singh Maini ELECTIONS IN INDIA By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES REGIONAL parties will be critical in forming the next government in India. As the country's general elections draw closer, the two main national parties, the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),
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        701 23  -  Andy Ho By SENIOR WRITER AN UNDERGRADUATE here stabbed his professor, then fell four floors to his death early this month. Last week, a 17-year-old boy killed 16 people in a shooting spree at a German school. The same week, a 28-year-old Alabama man shot
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          410 24 I REFER to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's speech at Tuesday's launch of this year's Speak Mandarin Campaign. There is a need to differentiate between Mandarin as a mother tongue and as a useful language for communicating better with others.
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        296 24 Price drop "Hats off to Caltex. In times like these, motorists will remember such gestures." MR HAN CHEE FONG: "I am delighted to hear that Caltex re-introduced its 92-grade petrol and also reduced its price. In addition, Caltex lowered the price of its Platinum-grade petrol, forcing others to scramble
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        394 24 THE Singapore Urological Association is a professional society representing specialist surgeons. Many of our members are directly involved in renal transplantation and the care of kidney failure and kidney transplant patients. We commend the Ministry of Health's efforts to amend the Human Organ
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        290 24 I REFER to Monday's letter, "Minor accident turns into a shocker" by Mr Kevin Chua Hock Meng. Mr Chua wrote that his motor insurance premium had increased sharply after NTUC Income settled a claim against him which he had disputed. Our records show
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        143 24 WE REFER to Madam Tan Lian Gim's letter, "No action on phone threat" (March -11). Under the law, verbal threat is a non-seizable offence where the police have limited powers of investigation and arrests Nonetheless when a report is made the police will look into
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        190 24 I WAS intrigued by yesterday's report, "lt's no shrimp". In America, shrimps are presumed to be larger than prawns. In Singapore, we regard prawns as being larger than shrimps, and so we call some of the larger ones tiger prawns. However large the
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      829 26  -  Jessica Lim Big discounts attract shoppers seeking value for money, say experts B\ Sales work Natas travel fair: 400m-long queue forms before fair opens The Hour Glass' private sale: Shoppers wait 30 minutes for cut-price watches IT Show: 770,000 shoppers spend a record $58.5 million LAST
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      827 27  -  Yeo Ghim Lay But operators might still have to look overseas to fill all the vacancies B) Job requirements Number of bus driver vacancies SBS Transit: 180 SMRT: 100 What it takes to be a bus driver Minimum Secondary 2 education, or a Level
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      327 27  -  K.C. VIJAYAN By LAW CORRESPONDENT GRADUATES seeking to become lawyers in a career switch can now do an Ameri-can-style law degree at the Singapore Management University (SMU). This alternative route to practising law here, known as the Juris Doctor (JD) programme, can be done in
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      362 28  -  CHRISTOPHER TAN COE prices ended mostly higher yesterday ahead of a supply squeeze starting next month. Certificates of entitlement for cars up to 1,600 cc ended 4.6 per cent higher at $5,116, while the premium for cars above 1,600 cc fell by 2 per cent to
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      452 28  -  Maria Almenoar LTA to test if roads can be made up of more recycled material By MORE of what you dump will soon go into building new roads. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is aiming to increase the composition of recycled materials in Singapore's roads to 70
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      475 29  -  Carolyn Quek Man gets two years and 10 months plus six strokes for helping to 'brand' friend's wife By A FREELANCE tattooist who helped a friend brand his wife's breasts, abdomen and forearms for alleged infidelity was jailed for two years and 10 months
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      557 29  -  Elena Chong MP THREAT CASE fhgjhjkhb COURTS CORRESPONDENT REGRETS "I made a mistake. Please allow me to clarify. I am very sorry. I say sorry to all the autistic children in Singapore...please forgive me." Ng Kirn Ngweng A RAG-AND-BONE man accused of criminal
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      78 29 Singapore Civil Defence Force officers rescuing a driver whose truck skidded and flipped on its side at a slip road off the East Coast Parkway yesterday. The man, who is in his late 50s, was trapped in the front of the truck and had to
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      431 29  -  Diana Othman By AN INDEPENDENT inquiry committee looking further into a seven-year-old girl's four storey plunge from a block in Telok Blangah Crescent began its investigations yesterday. Appointed by Tanjong Pagar Town Council chairman Koo Tsai Kee, the group will probe into the possible
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        107 29 A WOMAN pedestrian was hit by a van yesterday at about 8.40 am along Jalan Besar. She suffered head and facial injuries and was taken unconscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where she is warded in the Intensive Care Unit. As there were no
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        185 29 THE Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) seized 50,433 packets of contraband cigarettes with a street value of more than half a million dollars at the end of last week. The potential Customs duty and goods and services tax for the cigarettes amounted to more than
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        97 29 TWO local seafood and meat importers were fined yesterday for importing 1,600 kg of chilled oyster meat illegally from Thailand. Omni Aquatic Supplies and Chai Heng Sea Products were fined $40,000 and $30,000 respectively for making the unauthorised imports on Jan 17 this year. The
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      353 30 IN A nod to the Republic's ambition to become an international cruise centre, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) gave a glimpse of its new cruise terminal at a shipping event in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday which attracted industry bigwigs. The new terminal
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      547 30  -  Lim Wei Chean Marketing blitz promotes attractions to residents to make up for drop in foreign tourists By DISCOUNTS and promotions delivered by SMS are luring Singaporeans and residents to hotels and attractions here in their own country. Free tickets to attractions like the
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      349 31 MYANMAR Prime Minister Them Sein ended his two-day visit to Singapore yesterday with a call on Acting President J.Y. Pillay. A Foreign Affairs Ministry statement said that both men reaffirmed bilateral ties and the Myanmar Premier briefed Mr Pillay on political and economic developments in
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      772 31  -  Tan Weizhen Electronic books cost less and can be read on a wide range of devices By Growing selection to choose from THE National Library Board (NLB) has a growing collection of e-books which users can read for free. It has 770,000 e-books now. Of these,
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      321 31 PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT NEW YORK: US multimedia company Discovery Communications has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon over its popular electronic reader, the Kindle. Discovery, in the suit filed in a US district court in Delaware on Tuesday, claimed Amazon had violated a patent
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      399 32  -  Liaw Wy-Cin But efforts needed to translate research into products for markets By Global R&D spending will hit US$l.l trillion (Ssl.7 trillion) this year, up 3.2 per cent from last year. GLOBAL research and development (R&D) spending will continue to grow this year
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      364 32  -  APRIL CHONG CERVICAL CANCER Survey findings More than 90 per cent of those surveyed did not know that the human papilloma virus is the main cause of cervical cancer. Two thirds of them did not know there was a vaccine. Doctors surveyed cited
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      159 32 LOW-FAT, no fat, low cholesterol, no trans fat, hi-fibre... It seems that these words and phrases pop out of every package of food you put on the supermarket trolley. But what does it all mean? And how can you tell if these claims are true?
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      944 33  -  Richard Jolly Inconsistency, injuries rule out usual suspects as Player of the Year By English Premier League Player of the Year contenders Steven Gerrard, 28 Liverpool, midfielder Why? The best all-round footballer in the EPL who inspires and produces performances that are beyond the capabilities of virtually
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      313 33 Arsenal 2 Hull City 1 LONDON: Arsenal may have kept alive their dream of bagging an FA Cup and Champions League double this season after beating Hull City 2-1 in an FA Cup quarter-final football match on Tuesday. But the sweet taste of
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      605 34  -  Neil Humphreys By Reds fans living off past glories That's Man Utd's thing; winning. Martyrdom is the Reds' thing. LIVERPOOL had to go and upset the apple cart. They had to disturb the natural order of things. Beating Manchester United 4-1 at Old Trafford has got Reds fans in
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      512 34  -  Wang Meng Meng Second-string Korean side breach SAFFC's defence in second half Singapore Armed Forces FC 0 Suwon Bluewings 2 By 1 NOT hard to break down. That was Suwon Bluewings coach Cha Bum Kun's assessment of the vanquished Singapore Armed Forces FC, who were
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      489 34 "For sure, many of those who feared playing against Manchester United don't want to face Liverpool from now on." JOHAN CRUYFF, former Dutch star who played for and coached Barcelona "Barcelona are playing unbelievable football this year. They are one team we wouldn't
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      283 34 PARIS: Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has submitted a sample of his hair for a surprise doping test in France. Separately, the French anti-doping agency (AFLD) published hair-test results yesterday, suggesting widespread use among French athletes of the banned
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      610 35  -  Jeanette Wang SSC will be calling for a proposal soon on the Changi Motorsports Hub By "Even in times like this, we are still on the look out for opportunities and we will not slow down. We'll just do it more carefully." DR VIVIAN BALAKRISHNAN,
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      235 35 WELLINGTON (New Zealand): Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder struck centuries to lead a New Zealand fightback in the first cricket Test against India at Hamilton yesterday. Captain Vettori scored his third Test century, a superb 118, and Ryder registered his maiden Test ton 102
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      535 35 "The framework runs the risk of turning on its head the very essence of Fl and the principles that make it one of the most popular and appealing sports." LUCA DI MONTEZEMOLO, Formula One Teams' Association chairman PARIS: Formula One teams are outraged by
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      90 35 The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) was yesterday named as the training partner for the Ist Asian Youth Games (AYG) and the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Standing next to a cake to commemorate the occasion at the ITE campus at Clementi were
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      205 35  -  May Chen By BEDOK Kings Rugby Football Club's honorary president Onishi Yasuyuki died of liver cancer on Tuesday. He was 58. Yasuyuki was diagnosed with the disease last year during a routine medical check-up. He was among a handful of officials who founded the club
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      336 35 "When you've been around for a while as a player, all you want is a bit of respect and to be treated the way you feel you deserve to be." Tottenham Hotspur skipper Robbie Keane on how he felt he had been treated by Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez during
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      443 36 Lakers stumble as Jackson's warning falls on deaf ears Philadelphia 76ers 94 Los Angeles Lakers 93 LOS ANGELES: Phil Jackson tried to warn his players. He brought it up in team meetings, sent messages through the media, did everything but shoot off a flare gun
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        69 36 GURGAON (India): Singapore golfer Mardan Mamat shot a 65 yesterday to be placed joint-second after the first round of the Asian Tour's SAIL Open. Thailand's Chapchai Nirat made the best of ideal playing conditions to set a course-record 10-under 62 for the lead. Tied with
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        102 36 INDIAN WELLS (California): Former world No. 1 Kirn Clijsters may make a comeback to the women's tennis tour, her former coach Carl Macs said on Tuesday. The Belgian retired from the sport in May 2007 and had her first child last year. But she fuelled
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        131 36 SYDNEY: Swedish swimmer Therese Alshammar said yesterday that the sport's swimsuit rules were sexist, after she became the first swimmer to be stripped of a world record under the new laws. She set a world record of 25.445 ec in the 50m butterfly on
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        58 36 SHEFFIELD (England): Britain's growing strength in women's swimming was underlined again on Tuesday when 19-year-old Hannah Miley set a new European record in the 200 m individual medley at the national championships. Miley clocked 2min 9.595 ec to break Ukrainian Yana Klochkova's nine-year-old
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      396 33 NAME THE AYG MASCOT The public can get their first peek of the cute Asian Youth Games (AYG) mascot when it is unveiled today. The symbol of the AYG, which stands for friendship, excellence and respect will, however, be launched without a name. The organisers want the public to take
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      266 35 Today Baseball World Classic (Live, Ch23, 7am and 11am). Bowling National Age Group Championships (Orchid Bowl Orchid Country Club, Orchid Bowl SAFRA Yishun) 9am. Cricket ICC Women's World Cup (Live, Chill, 10.45 am). Football S-League: Gombak United v Young Lions (Jurong West), Balestier Khalsa v DPMM (Toa Payoh) 7.45pm. Uefa
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  • OBITUARIES
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      237 36 TEO POH CHOO AGE: 81 passed away peacefully on 17th March 2009 Dearly missed ana fondly remembered by loved ones SONS: DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW: GRANDSONS: GRANDDAUGHTERS: Koh Kah Kek. Kenneth Koh Kwee Kheng, Eveln Koh Fang Kiat, Derek Koh Fang Ling, Janice Koh Kah Hock SeahChooMui Koh Fang Kai, Edwin Koh Fang
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      121 36 "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my 50u1:... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." Psalm 23 BENEDICT RABINDRAN CUMARASWAMY Age: 67 was called
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      43 36 The family of the late MDM LAU NGIAN LANG, AMY Departed on 14 March 2009 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      39 36 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of MSLEEEKHON Departed: 19/03/2008 Gone from our lives one so dear, But in our hearts forever near. Dearly missed fondly remembered by Father, Mother, Brothers, Sister, Brother- in-law, Sisters- in- law, God-daughter, Nephews Nieces
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      35 36 IST ANNIVERSARY IN LOVING MEMORY OF ANTONY RAJARATNAM Departed 19.3.2008 We've been lonely since you left us, Home has not been the same. Fondly missed by: Beloved Wife Murali Daughter Nishi and all loved ones.
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      75 36 We, the family of the late LIM CHEW FUNG Departed on 11 March 2009 wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to friends and relatives for their kind assistance, wreaths, condolences, and contributions during our recent bereavement. Special thanks to: Dr Freddy Teo of Parkway Cancer Centre Dr Kevin
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      737 38  -  Grace Ng Bank lowers forecast to 6.5%, but says country's fundamentals are still strong By CHINA CORRESPONDENT Growth forecast China's GDP growth trajectory 1990: 3.8 per cent 1999: 7.6 per cent 2007: 13 per cent 2008: 9 per cent Forecast for 2009 China's target:
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      363 38 HONG KONG: Singapore and Taiwan will be emerging Asia's most battered economies this year as the global downturn spreads across the continent, while China will just miss its targeted 8 per cent growth rate, a Reuters poll shows. The poll forecasts gross domestic
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        76 38 TOKYO: Japan's central bank announced yesterday that it would pump more cash into the financial system to tackle a worsening recession, while maintaining its interest rates at close to zero. The emergency action by the Bank of Japan would boost its outright purchases of
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        85 38 BANGALORE: IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc for at least US$6.5 billion (559.9 billion), the Wall Street Journal reported, in a deal that could bolster IBM's computer server products against rivals such as Hewlett-Packard. That would translate into a premium of about 100
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      397 38 NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Bernard Madoff's long-time accountant was arrested on fraud charges yesterday, accused of aiding the man who has admitted cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars in the past two decades. David Friehling, 49, is the first person to be arrested since
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      615 42 The Necessary Stage presents I J^K^mM Erarf iirnif 1 a* i ullui eu ls||n|l mc LIFE! Three P |a y s about dysfunctional families I UIII|LICU TH@3bRE ca d the nominations in this year's Life! AWARDS Theatre Awards. ADELINE CHIA finds out 2009 why they found favour with the judges.
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        374 44 Production Of The Year Gemuk Girls (The Necessary Stage), House Of Sins (Drama Box), Reservoir (Theatre Works), Temple (Cake), The King Lear Project: A Trilogy (Ho Tzu Nyen and Fran Borgia) Best Director Natalie Hennedige (Temple), Li Xie (House Of Sins), Christina Sergeant (The Hypochondriac), Alvin Tan (Gemuk
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        561 47 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS New and emerging writers take note: The Singapore Press Holdings-National Arts Council (SPH-NAC) Golden Point Award is open for submissions from now until May 29. The biennial writing competition invites entries in the categories of short story and poetry in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil.
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        589 48  -  deepika shetty Deaf pianist Azariah Tan wins award and will perform at the Kennedy Center in the US WELCOME TO MY WORLD 09: A CONCERT BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Where: Victoria Theatre When: Sunday, April 19, spm Admission: $10 $20, call 6448-6275 or log on to www.vsa.org.sg
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        350 50  -  chang tou liang MUSIC BY JOHN SHARPLEY SIA Auditorium LaSalle College of the Arts Tuesday, lpm If a history of Western classical music in Singapore were written in 50 years' time or so, Houston-born composer and pedagogue John Sharpley, now a Singapore permanent resident, might well occupy a
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      539 46  -  tara tan Sri Warisan's latest production is a musical that draws on Bangsawan or Malay opera arts reporter TOWKAY WAYANG Who: Sri Warisan Where: Victoria Theatre When: March 27, Bpm, March 28, 3 and Bpm Admission: $20 from Sri Warisan (tel: 6225-6070) To call Marina Yusoff,
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        405 53 New York Members of Natasha Richardson's venerable acting family were seen gathering near the Tony Awardwinning actress after she suffered a reportedly serious head injury during a beginner's skiing lesson in Quebec. Richardson, part of the Redgrave dynasty of British actors and the wife of
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        253 53 London Grammy Award-winning British singer Amy Winehouse turned a court appearance into a spring fashion show on Tuesday as she pleaded innocent to assaulting a fan at a party last year. The 25-year-old star known for battles with addiction and run-ins with the law stepped out of
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        210 53 Hong Kong Hardworking actress Nancy Sit has sparked concerns for her health after she asked TVB to cut back her scenes in her upcoming drama. Sit, 58, was due to return to the set of Root Of Evil on Sunday after repeated
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        150 53 SLUMDOG GOES TO CHINA Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire has secured a coveted slot as one of 20 major foreign movies that China will import this year, a distributor said. The movie cleared Chinese censors easily and director Danny Boyle will attend the premiere in Beijing next Wednesday, a spokesman said.
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      281 81 SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Eye Screening: Glaucoma, the most common cause of permanent blindness in Singaporeans, can be detected early through eye screening. National University Hospital is offering free eye screening for those aged 45 and above. Eye Surgery Centre, Kent Ridge Wing 2, Level 3, NUH. 9am to
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      305 84 Midlife crisis or male menopause? Guys over 40 can sign up for an Ageing Males' Symptoms test Pharmaceutical company Bayer Schering Pharma and the Society for Men's Health Singapore (SMHS) launch the programme, Restore The Man, today. It comprises a series of public forums and lunchtime seminars
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        242 85 Are you a smoker who really finds it hard to quit? Then maybe some nagging will help. Researchers found that sending smokers anti-tobacco messages via their handheld computer or PDA (personal digital assistant) for two weeks spurred more than half to attempt quitting, Reuters reported.
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        153 85 Scientists think they may have the answer to why hair turns grey and though it is early days yet, this could result in strategies to prevent it from doing so. New research showed that hair turns grey as a result of a chemical chain reaction that
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        178 85 Are you a woman currently facing marital strife? Then get your heart checked regularly. Researchers said last month that women in strained marriages are more likely than other wives to have high blood pressure and other risk factors of heart disease. The University of
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          278 91  -  Poon Chian Hui Only 1,5 Singaporeans checks the food labels when buying packaged food Most of us are not in the habit of checking food labels regularly. Only one in five Singaporeans checks the food labels when buying packaged food, an AC Nielsen survey found last
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        99 92 Bakers are turning out healthier products. The latest on supermarke shelves is the Sunshine enriched soft white bread (inset). The breau mailer nas improved one of its best-known products with a new, healthier recipe. It comes in a new packaging, is cholesterol-free and is enriched with
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        92 92 Feel like a sweet treat? Katjes will launch two new flavours here next month. They are Caribbean winegums in a 13Og bag (inset). The fruit gums are made from different fruit concentrates like mango, orange, tangerine, kiwi, grapefruit, cherry, guava and passion fruit. They contain no artificial flavours
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        687 98 Janelle Koh, 29 The president of the Singapore Paintball Association was in the national women's football squad in 2003. Koh, who weighs 57kg and is 1.68 m tall, organised Singapore's first novice paintball series in March last year. For more information, log onto www.weplay paintball.com/ forum She
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