Today, 2 November 2005

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  • Article
    Clubs hope for upswing
    608 1  -  LEE U-WEN With membership prices at rock bottom, clubs now eye kids to revive the industry u-wen@newstoday.com.sg JUST a decade ago, you would have had to shell out a six-figure sum to own a membership at some of Singapore's posh golf clubs. But things have changed.
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    Lock icon These maids sleep on mats outside the house
    559 1  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@newstoday.com. sg DR DAVID Tio has witnessed a disturbing sight for the past two weeks, walking past his neighbour's house on his way home: A group of maids lying huddled on the cemented backyard, sleeping on thin mattresses, mats
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      34 1 INSIDI hot news 2 Singapore news 4 world news 8 voices 16 business 22 growth 28 plus 30 tv radio listings 36 classad 38 sports 39 we set you thinking B If H v
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Ho Ching 7th on WSJ's 'Top 50 Women' list
      362 2 TEMASEK Holdings chief executive Ho Ching (picture) has made it to yet another world ranking. Ms Ho, who is also the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has been placed seventh in the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) second "Top 50
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    • Article
      Faulty gene behind dyslexia?
      413 2 Findings could put dyslexic children on educational programmes earlier UP TO a fifth of dyslexia cases a disorder that impairs the ability to read and write and spell words could be caused by a faulty version of a gene called DCDC2, scientists at the Yale School
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    • Article, Illustration
      Asian Aerospace ropes in CEO of Dubai Air Show organisers
      318 2 AS THE battle for the skies hots up with a new entrant, Asian Aerospace co-organiser Reed Exhibitions has called in reinforcements. The company has roped in aerospace industry veteran Clive Richardson (picture), former Asian Aerospace international sales and marketing director
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      Neighbourly protocol a delicate matter
      783 3  -  Sunny Goh Singapore sending the right signals this time with last week's visit to China A TAIWANESE friend, curious about Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's visit to China last week, asked me why he needed seven days for the trip, when he could easily dispense
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon Driving up demand
      602 4  -  TORCHING LI SBS Transit's July wage revision draws local Bus Captain hopefuls; SMRT Buses may follow suit chingli@newstoday.com.sg SINCE SBS Transit revised its salary scheme for Bus Captains in July this year, increasing the starting pay to $1,200 a month, the number of local applicants for the
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    • Article
      Police arrest 4 betting syndicate suspects
      229 4  -  -LOHCHEEKONG IN A raid on Monday evening, the police arrested four persons suspected of being part of an overseas betting syndicate. The Chinese Singaporeans were arrested in a five-hour operation that started at about 6.20pm. In the simultaneous raid on four HDB flats at
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  • world news
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      Lock icon Japan media mixed on line-up
      425 6 -AFP Concern expressed over 2 new hawks in the Cabinet TOKYO Japanese media gave a mixed assessment yesterday of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reshuffled Cabinet, expressing concern over two hawkish new ministers but welcoming a commitment to continue reforms. "The line-up... shows safe, practical choices,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Another setback for Merkel
      246 6 -AFP BERLIN Incoming German Chancellor Angela Merkel's attempts to form a coalition government were hit by another setback after the leader of one of two main conservative parties, Mr Edmund Stoiber, decided not to serve in her administration. Mr Stoiber, who was to serve as economy
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    • Article
      Lock icon Suicide bomber, 13, attacks police officer
      257 6 AGENCIES BAGHDAD A senior Iraqi police officer was seriously wounded yesterday in a suicide bomb attack carried out by a child believed to be just 13 years of age. The child, who was wearing an explosive belt, attacked Brigadier Khattab Iris Abdullah of the
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon BLACK MICE THAT SING LIKE BIRDS
        77 6 Far above the range of human hearing, male mice are warbling what may be love songs that are remarkably bird-like, according to a study in the Public Library of Science Biology journal. Excited by the scent of a female, each of the laboratory-bred minstrels
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        Lock icon HALLOWEEN IS 'TERRORISM'
        50 6 —AFP President Hugo Chavez cautioned Venezuelan parents to protect their children from Halloween with a warning that the American tradition is rooted in "terrorism". "What they have implanted here is terrorism," Mr Chavez said. "They disguise children as witches and wizards. that is contrary to our culture."
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        Lock icon GETTING SMASHED IS SO AUSSIE
        62 6 ■AFP Occasionally getting drunk is a core part of the national identity for most Australians, according to new research by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Council. The study of 1,500 Australians found that about 58 per cent of people agreed that sometimes having too
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      • Article
        Lock icon TAX DEDUCTION FOR WITCHCRAFT
        55 6 ■AP Dutch witches are getting a tax break. A court has ruled that the cost of witchcraft lessons can be taken as a tax deduction. Learning to cast spells and brew potions doesn't come cheap. Witchcraft workshops cost more than US$2OO ($339) a weekend or more
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      Lock icon Courageous Ms Charm meets Bush
      224 8 -AFP WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush, saying he was concerned over human rights violations in Myanmar, met 23-year-old Ms Charm Tong, who is campaigning for the rights of minority groups in the military-ruled state. Ms Charm Tong, a founding member of the widely
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      Lock icon Canada widens its doors to immigrants
      184 8 -AP OTTAWA Faced with a declining birthrate and aging population, Canada announced changes to its immigration policy, including plans to take in as many as 300,000 new immigrants annually within the next five years. In his annual report on immigration, Canadian Immigration Minister Joe
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      Lock icon Economies hit by bird flu fears
      379 8 —AFP Scare-mongering not the way to tackle problem, say Apec delegates BRISBANE Fears about avian influenza were already damaging some Asian economies and the impact of a full-scale pandemic would be "catastrophic", a conference of international health officials was told yesterday. Officials from the
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    • FIGHTING THE FLU
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        Lock icon ANOTHER THAI PROVINCE STRICKEN
        79 8 -AFP The deadly HSNI strain of bird flu has been detected in chickens in another Thai province, as the country struggles to contain the disease one day after the 20th human case was diagnosed. The latest outbreak in Supanburi, just northwest of Bangkok, brings to six
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        Lock icon OUTBREAKS IN 10 RUSSIAN AREAS
        79 8 -AFP Russia has discovered outbreaks of avian flu in 10 areas, and 19 more are under suspicion, according to agriculture ministry officials. Migratory birds had apparently carried the virus to Siberia from southeast Asia, leading to the destruction of hundreds of thousands of fowl and
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        Lock icon CANADA DETECTS DIFFERENT STRAIN
        75 8 ■AFP The H5 avian influenza virus has been found in wild migratory birds in Canada, officials said, but it is unlikely the deadly HSNI strain threatening Asia and Europe and there is no threat to human health. The virus, whose subtype must still be determined, was
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        Lock icon BUSH TO UNVEIL US STRATEGY
        87 8 -AFP United States President George W Bush plans to unveil a national strategy to combat the threat of a bird flu pandemic at home and abroad, a White House spokesman said. Mr Bush's strategy will emphasise identifying and containing an outbreak promptly, stockpiling vaccines and
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      Lock icon Thai militants call for self-rule in violence-riddled South
      243 10 -AFP BANGKOK A group of Islamic militants yesterday called for self-government in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, warning the conflict could degenerate into a war between religions in this Buddhist country which has left more than 1,000 dead and 200 missing since the unrest
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      Lock icon Aids protection for women
      396 10 BLOOMBERG Gels being developed for use in poor nations WASHINGTON Pharmaceutical firms Merck Co and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co each have licensed experimental drugs to a non-profit group that is developing treatments to prevent Aids infections, said the International Partnership for Microbicides. The drug-makers will provide experimental
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      Lock icon Rove's head should roll, says critic
      203 10 -AFP WASHINGTON Mr Joseph Wilson, the former United States diplomat in the eye of the CIA-leak storm, demanded the scalp of White House political maestro Karl Rove (picture) over the scandal. Mr Wilson's swipe at Mr Bush's closest political adviser came as the row
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        DRUG BUST ON HIGH SEAS
        33 10 British Royal Marine snipers firing from a helicopter blasted a speedboat's engines in the Caribbean and seized £200 million ($6OO million) worth of cocaine, reported The Sun yesterday.
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        Lock icon THE FACE OF FERTILITY
        78 10 ■AFP A woman's fertility is as plain as her face, said scientists in Scotland's St Andrew's University. They made the claim after asking volunteers to rate pic tures of 59 young women aged 19 to 25 for attractiveness, health and femininity Comparing the results to an
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        Lock icon XMAS STAMPS IRK UK HINDUS
        48 10 DPA British Hindus have called on the Royal Mail to withdraw one of this year's Christmas postage stamps, claiming the image of a man and woman with Hindu markings worshipping the infant Christ is insulting to their religion, the Daily Telegraph said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Pakistan's help offer a welcome change
      606 12  -  SANJAY KAPOOR Fragile peace tide washed up by quake seems to be holding after Delhi blasts news@newstoday.com.sg FORTY-EIGHT hours after the murderous serial blasts left a trail of destruction and death in New Delhi, the conversation that took place between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
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      Lock icon UN vote piles pressure on Syria
      481 12 -AFP WASHINGTON The United Nations Security Council has sent a clear warning to Syria that it must come clean over its alleged role in the murder of Lebanon's former premier or face further international isolation, analysts say. "The signal by the Security Council today
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      Lock icon Why religion is on a roll in China
      785 14  -  Dr Eric Tea Spiritual revival seen as antidote to prevalent wealth-chasing mentality RELIGION is on a roll in China but this revival must be seen within the context of a continuous decline of ideology in China I and the current philosophical vacuum
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      Lock icon Cartoons cause uproar in Muslim community
      245 14 —AFP COPENHAGEN Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, known for her outspoken criticism of Islam, voiced support for a Danish daily which caused an uproar in the Muslim community by publishing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. Ms Hirsi Ali, who wrote the screenplay
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      Lock icon Turkey's zero-tolerance checklist
      169 14 -AFP LONDON Turkey will have two years to eliminate torture, establish freedom of religion and assert civilian control over the military if it wants to become a European Union (EU) member in 10 years, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The British newspaper said it had seen a
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  • Voices
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      Tourist-targeted buses should be ad-free
      198 16  -  ERICIATAN Letter from I REFER to the letter, "Can Passengers 'see' through ads on buses?" (Oct 27). I agree with the writer that the ads on buses are taking up a greater proportion of the bus windows. While I applaud the bus operators' efforts to
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    • The death penalty divide
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        Our small country simply cannot be lenient on crime
        184 16  -  JEFFREY LAW Letter from I AGREE with Mr Siow Jia Rui's views in "When in Singapore Don't blame the law of the land, blame the drug problem" (Nov 1). Those who launched vitriolic attacks on our Government for its decision to
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      • Letter
        Australia has a right to criticise death sentence
        249 16  -  JOHN MURRAY Letter from I REFER to Mr Siow Jia Rui's comment in "When in Singapore (Nov 1). He said he was writing "in response to the countless attacks levelled at Singapore" by the Australian media and citizens. The coverage that this
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    • Letter
      Security checks 'an excuse' for jams
      170 16  -  PATGAN Letter from THE Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's (ICA) explanation for the traffic jam at Woodlands Checkpoint is feeble. If our national security is the reason for the unavoidable congestion, could the ICA care to explain why there is always a morning traffic jam
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      Building a biz blog
      623 18  -  Mr Miyagi Don't just jump on the bandwagon do it right, businesses I'VE written in this column previously about businesses ignoring blogs at their peril, and how if they didn't respond to bloggers' sentiments quickly or smartly enough, they might very quickly have themselves a PR
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    • Letter
      Separate tranches give investors choice
      162 18  -  JOHN GOLUFER Letter from, Senior Vice President and Head Corporate Communications and Investor Relations WE REFER to Mr Narayana Narayana's letter, "One quote would suffice" (Oct 27). Having two separate tranches in a rights issue in both the ratio of the issue as well as
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      247 20  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY.... COST OF BEING A PARENT Considering how expensive and difficult it is to be a good parent, many people wonder these days why anyone would want to even have children! I'm reminded of a woman who boarded a Los Angeles bus a
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      Lock icon Service with a smile, please
      367 20  -  NELSON QUAH Train retail and F&B outlet staff to serve customers with a 'personal touch' Letter from I REFER to the report, "Retail studies school to start classes soon" (Oct 28) and applaud the move to start an institute to train adult retail workers so
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    • Letter
      Book drivers with lights on high beam
      185 20  -  TOHKOKSENG Letter from I READ with dismay the recent news that the authorities are considering booking drivers who drive with their front fog lamps turned on. I hope this is not another well-inten-tioned, but not properly considered, action. Virtually all factory-fitted front fog
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      Drains built to allow natural drainage
      328 20  -  YAPKHENGGUAN Letter from Director, Drainage Public Utilities Board (PUB) PUB thanks Mr Jeffrey Ho Loon Poh for his letter "Drains in Spore just do not drain", (Oct 29). In Singapore, we tend to experience short but heavy bursts of rain. As such, our drains
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon CapitaLand's 5-year commitment
      519 22 BLOOMBERG Spore property developer is the only strategic investor in the relaunched Link Reit and will hold on to at least half its allocated units for that period CAPITALAND, South-east Asia's biggest listed property developer, will keep for five years at least half its holding in Hong
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    • marketwatch
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        singapore
        14 22 There was no stock trading in Singapore yesterday due to the Deepavali holiday.
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        World markets
        50 22 Nikkei 225 13,867.86 +261.36 +1.92 Hang Seng Australia ASX 14,572.26 +185.89 4,474.78 +15.88 +1.29 +8.34 Taiwan Wtd 5,798.41 +34.11 +8.59 Korea Comp 1,188.95 +38.84 +2.66 KLCI Closed SET Index 693.27 +18.65 +1.56 Jakarta Comp 1,864.95 -1.27 -8.12 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Closed 188.95 -8.28 -8.15 Mumbai Sensex Closed
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 22 JS$ 0.5899 JK£ 0.3336 en 68.825 m 4.5748 !M 2.2275 iuro 0.4913 iupiah 5,962.5 Jaht 24.068 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 32.52! 0.7911 26.621 615.61 0.697: 4.771; 0.844; 19.8V
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        Lock icon Commodities
        23 22 BLOOMBERG Gold US$/oz 467.80 Silver US$/oz 7.575 Platinum US$/oz 937.20 Rubber cents/kg 282.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1/432 Brent crude US$/barrel 58.10 G
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Glitch halts Tokyo trade but stocks surge on resumption
        308 24 -AGENCIES TOKYO The Tokyo Stock Exchange's (TSE) trading system crashed yesterday, bringing dealing to a halt in a major embarrassment for Asia's largest bourse that has announced plans to go public. The system glitch, which forced the TSE to suspend trading
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        Lock icon A new e-trading platform in town
        328 24 AGENCIES CBOTto use Singapore as a springboard for regional growth after MAS nod THE Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is banking on growth in Singapore to boost transactions and help offset a slowdown in the trading of US Treasury futures, the market's most active
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      • Article
        Lock icon Mandarin plans Las Vegas hotel with MGM Mirage
        214 25 BLOOMBERG MANDARIN Oriental International, the Singapore-listed luxury hotel arm of Jardine Matheson Holdings, said it planned to open a 400-room hotel in Las Vegas in 2009 with MGM Mirage, the world's secondlargest casino operator. The hotel will be part of the US$5
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        Lock icon Temasek in palm oil deal
        303 25 BLOOMBERG It teams up with Cargill to buy 5 plantations SINGAPORE investment company Temasek Holdings has teamed up with Cargill, the largest agricultural company in the United States, to buy five palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as demand for the product
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      • Article
        FiberChem Q3 profit up 42%
        157 25 MAINBOARD-LISTED chemical fibre manufacturer FibreChem Technologies reported yesterday a 42-per-cent surge in net profit for its fiscal third quarter ended Sept 30 to HK537.9 million ($8.2 million) from HK526.7 million in the corresponding period a year earlier. Sales rose 51.5 per cent to HK$2Ol.B million
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        marketbuzz
        190 26 OLE OLE! WITH KFC TH E wet weather did not stop 500 Today readers from snapping up KFC's new Fish Ole burgers. From 10am to noon on Monday, the fast food chain held a joint promotion whereby Today readers could redeem the new burgers at the Ang Mo Kio,
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        Lock icon China's great IPO rush
        524 26 DOW JONES Largest state-owned bank ready for float, top firms report results BEIJING The river of initial public offerings (IPOs) out of China keeps flowing, with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) the latest to put its hat in the ring. Following China Construction Bank's
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        697 27 Concerns about global growth, rising US interest rates spook investors NEW YORK Emerging market stocks were badly hit last month by uncertainties over global growth and United States interest rates, and lagged behind their developed-country peers. As of last Friday, the Morgan Stanley Capital International
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        606 28  -  DAWN QUEK Biz World competition pits students against market realities news@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE Polytechnic's Vanda Room turned into a noisy marketplace two weeks ago. Students from 15 schools stood on chairs peddling their wares, shouting and haggling to promote their products. Using materials like
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      1741 30  -  Zul Othman Sweet Charity star Ramli Sarip once packed stadiums; his work still rings true with the current generation IN 1984, a major music concert in Pahang almost ended in chaos. Thousands of fans forced their way into the stadium to watch their heroes, causing an unexpected
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        454 33  -  JEANINETAN Marketed as a musical, Perhaps Love is all drama, says director Peter Chan jea nine@newstoday.com.sg WHEN Takeshi Kaneshiro watched the playback of one of his scenes in Perhaps Love, he told director Peter Chan: "I have so much feeling for this film. How
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        341 34  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS neil@newstoday.com.sg CHOPPING and slicing body parts has proven very popular this week. The Legend ofZorro slashed its way to the top of the Singapore box office, while Saw 77 took a respectable US$3O.5 million ($51.7 million) to go to No 1 in
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        145 35 IMAGINE $200,000 FOR A SUIT The white suit worn by John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road album sold for USSIIB,OOO ($200,000) at an auction in Las Vegas on Monday, reported the BBC. Lennon wore his white suit on the 1969 album cover where the Fab Four
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        80 35 Actor Alec Baldwin filed court papers against former wife Kirn Basinger in a custody battle yesterday, claiming Basinger "has a pathological need" to turn their daughter against him, reported AP. Baldwin is seeking a psychological evaluation of Basinger. Basinger attended the hearing but declined to comment
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      589 44 AGENCIES Striker returns from injury as Arsenal look to progress UHWYE LONDON Arsenal will be hoping for an encore from Thierry Henry as they seek to seal their place in the knockout stages of the Champions League at the expense of Sparta Prague today (tomorrow
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      562 44 -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, GROUP A Juventus v Bayern Munich TURIN Juventus' powers of recovery will be put to the test when they face Bayern Munich in the Champions League today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time). The Italian champions, whose 2-1 defeat to Bayern
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      635 45 -AFP French side would have been boosted by woeful United, says Ferguson GRWG PARIS Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson reckons Lille must have been boosted for today's Champions League fixture by United's terrible defensive display in the Premiership at the weekend. The teams drew
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      311 45 AFP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man City 3 Aston Villa 1 MANCHESTER Darius Vassell scored twice against his old club Aston Villa in a 3-1 Premiership victory from an opportunist strike and then a superb piece of finishing on Monday. Vassell, bought by
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      350 45 -AFP MANCHESTER A Roy Keane interview on Manchester United's sorry 4-1 loss to Middlesbrough has been pulled from the club's MUTV programme schedule. The United captain carried out his brief to analyse the Riverside debacle in the regular Plays the Pundit programme at the team's
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        375 39 -AFP GM declines $7 million deal to take a year off BOSTON, Massachusetts Theo Epstein has decided to walk away from the Boston Red Sox general manager's job just hours after reports that he had agreed to a threeyear deal worth US$4.5 million ($7.6 million), the team
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        303 39 -AFP NFL Pittsburgh 20 Baltimore 19 PITTSBURGH Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes and Jeff Reed kicked a 37-yard field goal with 96 seconds to play on Monday, giving Pittsburgh a 20-19 American football victory over Baltimore. "Big Ben" shook off a knee sprain that sent him
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        362 40 -AGENCIES TOKYO A new Formula 1 team, managed and funded by the Japanese, are set to line up on the grid next year, bringing the total number of teams to 11. The team, Super Aguri Formula One, will be led by former Formula
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        530 40 -AFP Rusedski and Blake enjoy new lease of life in injury-hit tournament PARIS Greg Rusedski and James Blake, whose injury histories could fill a medium-size medical textbook, reached the Paris Masters second round on Monday in a tournament devastated by the absence of the world's biggest stars.
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        632 41 DPA ■IMMlllllMMlLMlllllimillllllMUßMa^^ 1 LOS ANGELES The opening night team rosters for the NBA 2005-06 season will feature a record 82 international players from 36 countries and territories. In comparison, the NBA featured just 26 international players from 17 countries and territories in 1995-96. Say what you want
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        482 41 ■AFP LOS ANGELES Phil Jackson's stunning return to the Los Angeles Lakers sparked a swirl of speculation on just how the coach and Kobe Bryant- the superstar he once dubbed "uncoachable" would coexist. But the real question to be answered in the coming season is
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        579 42  -  JOSE RAYMOND Last game of 2005 will be kswansong for several ICup combatants jose@newstoday.com.sg IT IS the final match of the 2005 Singapore football season. And in more ways than one, this year's RHB Singapore Cup Final between Home United and Woodlands Wellington on Sunday at the
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        324 42  -  JOSE RAYMOND HE WAS once known as the Mouth of the North and was instrumental in the development of Woodlands Wellington in the early days. R Vengadasalam, now the Tampines Rovers director of operations, has never been far from controversy.
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        455 43  -  JOSE RAYMOND Former West Ham star to be Warriors' new coach jose@newstoday.com.sg A FORMER West Ham and West Bromwich Albion midfielder is set to replace Kirn Poulsen as the Warriors head coach. Yesterday, SAFFC chairman and SAF chief of artillery Col Lim Chin said that
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        169 43 AFP RAYONG, Thailand A monstrous 878-yard, par six hole will make a daunting debut on the Asian Tour at the inaugural US$3OO,OOO ($508,400) Double A International Open, starting tomorrow. The par six fourth hole at St Andrews Hill (2000) Golf Club has sparked
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        136 43 -AFP RAWALPINDI England's Ashes heroes face ignominious defeat in their Pakistan tour opener after collapsing for the second time against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI yesterday. England were reeling at 39--6 at stumps on the second day of the three-day match and need a Herculean effort to
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        344 43 -AFP MACAU China put in a near-per-fect track and field performance at the East Asian Games yesterday, falling just one victory short of a nine-event clean-sweep. Double gold in the men's and women's 100 metres, along with wins in the women's 10,000
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