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    25 1 weekendTODAY May 20-21, 2006 mica(p> 114/07/2005 //\S£J]J-\CORP __w weekendTODAY May 20 21, 2006 mica<p> 114/07/2005 we set you thinking todayonline.com /A=diaCorp share your free newspaper
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    THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
    1542 1  -  VALCHUA D-Day approaches for casino operators, and two appear to be in pole position va l@newstoday.com.sg ONE is touting a futuristic indoor theme park straight out of Hollywood. Another is happy to let its Macau foothold do the talking. The third has the right mix of ingredients
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      74 2 LIVING FATTH CHURCH" www.thelivingfaith.org "ButtheQOOCl man walks along in the ever-brightening; light of God's favor the dawn gives way to morning SplendOr The Bible-Proverbs 4:18 Singapore Marketplace Christian Fellowship Conference Hall DBS Auditorium Level 3, Main Concert Hall Time: 7.30pm Time: I Oam (Light refreshments will be served from 6.30pm
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  • hot news
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      Today's Top 2 picks:
      159 3 A neck-and-neck race between MGM Mirage-CapitaLand and Las Vegas Sands is on the cards as the Marina Bay integrated resort race draws to a close. Both feature prominently in the key Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conventions and Exhibitions (Mice) business something the other two bidders lack. They
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  • singapore news
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      Lock icon S'porean diverted aircraft parts to Iran
      485 4  -  LOH CHEE KONG —WITH AGENCY REPORTS He faces up to 30 years in US jail for violating trade embargo and laundering millions cheekong@newstoday.com. sg A SINGAPORE businessman who illegally diverted aircraft equipment from the United States to Iran was convicted yesterday. Ernest Koh, 54,
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    • Article
      Lock icon An East and South Asia common market: MM
      299 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA EAST Asia has the potential to become a common integrated market with bargaining power against the rest of the world, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Friday. He was speaking at a memorial lecture in Seoul where he was
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      LTA officers allegedly took bribes
      216 4  -  LOHCHEEKONG A LAND Transport Authority (LTA) senior executive and a former LTA employee were hauled up on corruption charges yesterday. Poh Yuan Loong, 32, and M Muhundan, 36, who has resigned from his executive job at LTA, were alleged to have accepted bribes totalling $30,386
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      Death for a murderous Romeo
      477 6  -  TEOXUANWEI KALLANG IC PARTS k/lURI ERTRIAL Judge dismisses suicide pact theory, rules Leong killed his lover xua nweit@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS no tragic suicide pact of a pair of ill-fated lovers, but in plain words a "horrific homicide" and a "most disgusting and despicable murder". Those
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      Lock icon Closure and coming to terms
      748 6  -  ANSLEYNG i sz*. i EXCLUSIVE ansley@newstoday.com.sg SHE should have been there, right next to the coffin, donning the mourning garment, and performing the last rites for her dead sister. But throughout the few hours last July as about 200 well-wishers, mostly strangers, sent her sister
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      Your personal doc at polyclinics
      677 8  -  TAN HUI LENG Family physician services launched as minister admits he is'not proud of polyclinics' huileng@newstoday.com. sg TO BETTER manage chronic health conditions, public healthcare groups Sing Health and National Healthcare Group have started family physician services at their polyclinics which will ensure that a
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      Want to fight child hunger? Walk the world
      267 8  -  —SAMPOORNA DASGUPTA EVERY night, 300 million children go to bed hungry. Every night that passes sees 100 million of the poorest children missing school. For every five seconds that action is delayed for, another child will die of easily preventable causes. Looking
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon NEW INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE CHIEF APPOINTED
        96 8 -CHANNEL NEWSASIA International Enterprise Singapore will have a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from June 1 Mr Chong Lit Cheong, who replaces Mr Lee Vi Shyan who left IE Singapore to enter politics and now an MP-elect. Mr Chong, 50, will serve concurrently as
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        Lock icon DENGUE CASES FELL IN 2006'S FIRST FOUR MONTHS
        109 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA, 938 LIVE The number of reported dengue cases in Singapore has dropped by 73 per cent in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period last year-that is, from 3,356 down to just under 900. Monthly
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        Lock icon ISTANA GETS FIRST FEMALE AIDE-DE-CAMP
        105 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Istana has got its first full-time female aide-de-camp (ADC) to the President Major Poh Li San, 31, from the Republic of Singapore Air Force. Nearly 90 honorary ADCs received their appointments from the President on Friday. They play a key role in
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      Lock icon A bittersweet homecoming
      348 8 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA SHE WAS found in a warehouse here two years ago, chained up to a pole in the outdoors, subjected to the elements of nature. But yesterday, this female rhesus macaque called Asha (picture) finally embarked on her journey home to India, where she
      — 938 LIVE, CHANNEL NEWSASIA; PHOTO COURTESY OF MARCOM PRACTICE GROUF  -  348 words
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  • world news
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      Lock icon East Timor's . bloodless coup
      1022 10  - East Timor's bloodless coup MARIANNE KEARNEY IN JAKARTA EAST Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri avoided a leadership challenge this week but it is doubtful his rule will ensure any peace in the world's youngest nation. Thousands of residents who fled the capital Dili in the wake of the deadly April
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    • this quirky world
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        Lock icon GREAT-GRANDPA WOOED HIS 30 WIVES WITH HIS GENTLE VOICE
        77 10 -DPA A 78-year-old Malaysian great-grandfather has said that "sweet words and a gentle voice" were the key to his wooing and marrying 30 women since the age of 20. Mr Mohamad Zin Hazzan from Terengganu admitted, though, that divorce had upped
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        Lock icon PORTLY PIRANHA PUT ON A DIET
        89 10 -AFP A shoal of piranha fish on show at a British aquatic centre have had to be put on a diet, officials said. Regular mealtimes mean the razortoothed predators have become a bit podgy in the last month so they are now only being
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        'QURANIC FISH' APPARENTLY STOLEN
        69 10 A fish whose tail markings resembled a Quranic text has disappeared from the Kenyan Fisheries Department in Mombasa, the BBC reported. The tuna, which had provoked great interest among Kenya's Muslims, was allegedly stolen by people posing as National Museum officials. The museum had wanted to
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      Lock icon Karzai blames Pakistan for Taliban attacks
      226 10 AGENCIES KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) Afghan President Hamid Karzai has blamed Pakistan after more than 100 people were killed in some of the bloodiest, insurgency-linked fighting in the country since the militant Taliban were toppled five years ago. A senior British officer has also accused Pakistan
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      Lock icon Sipadan Scalped
      815 12  -  EDRICSNG Malaysia may close world-famous<dive destination after barge wrecks corals edric@newstoday.com.sg JUST months after it was forcibly vacated of its resorts and dive operators officially for environmental purposes the Malaysian scuba divers' paradise of Pulau Sipadan may now be closed to visitors. The suggestion to close the dive
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      Malaysia toughens penal code
      288 12 KUALA LUMPUR Men who threaten wives with death or violence for refusing to have sex could face a five-year jail term, as part of the latest efforts by the Malaysian government to toughen criminal penalties, the New Straits Times reported on Friday. However, Malaysia is unlikely
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      Lock icon Don't be put off by racism ...
      270 12 Don't be put off by racism -GUARDIAN BERLIN Black and Asian football fans were told not to be put off travelling to Germany for next month's World Cup despite a warning from an anti-racism campaign group to avoid certain areas of East Germany. Mr Uwe-Karsten Heye, a former government spokesman
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon TYPHOON CHANCHU KILLS 23
        53 12 —AFP Typhoon Chanchu killed 23 people and left up to 20,000 homeless in two southern Chinese provinces, a government official said yesterday. The typhoon, that had prompted the evacuation of over 1 million people in southern China, fizzled out by Friday and some areas had lifted
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        Lock icon HOBBIT HUMAN 'ALL HYPE'
        103 12 GUARDIAN Reports of the discovery in Indonesia of a new species of human, a metre tall "hobbit", were unfounded and hyped, an expert said on Thursday. The classification of 18,000-year-old remains on the remote island of Flores in 2003 as a different species of human. Homo
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        Lock icon BOY TO ATTEND SCHOOL AS A GIRL IN JAPAN
        106 12 GUARDIAN A seven-year-old boy in Japan with a gender identity disorder has been given permission to attend school as a girl in another sign that the country is relaxing its tradition-ally-rigid attitude towards sexual identity. The boy was diagnosed with the
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  • Voices
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      Lock icon I love rock and roll painters
      766 14  -  Neil Humphreys HDB building painters enthusiastically perform daily Tamil concerts for a naked 'Simon Cowell' WEEKEND WITH news@newstoday.com.sg I NOW dream about Indian painters. As I sleep, I'm haunted by images of men in paintspattered white overalls chasing me with their extended rollers. When
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      Exams for primary school students too demanding
      526 16  -  SEE LAY KENG Letter from Desire to be seen as having a high standard leads schools to set unduly tough questions I CANNOT agree more with Mr Ho Kong Loon's commentary, "Encourage them, don't browbeat the weak"( May 17). I was a secondary
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      Varsity rejection letters sent early to let students make other plans
      223 16  -  LOH NEE LAM TAN THIAM SOON Letter from ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Dean of Admissions Office of Admissions and Financial Aid Nanyang Technological University and ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Dean of Admissions Office of Admissions National University of Singapore WE REFER to the
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      Quotas deprive the deserving of just rewards
      213 16  -  Letter from I ONGUPHUA SINGAPORE'S economy has been delivering good results for the past few quarters. While the leaders' vision and planning are important to make this possible, the silent employees are in no small part contributing to this equation. Many companies have
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    • shoptalk
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        BERRY DELIGHT
        69 18 Fans of Lakerol's range of fruity pastilles can now take delight in the newly-launched Forest Berries flavour. This new variant combines the delicious flavours of three types of berries strawberry, raspberry and blackberry so that it will tantalise your taste buds with its unique flavour. The new Lakerol
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        GIVE YOUR SKIN A LIFT
        55 18 Look fresh and reduce the signs of ageing with the Shi'Jano Lifting Serum.The serum is specially formulated to stimulate weakened facial muscles, improve the elasticity of your skin and moisturises it as well. The Shi'Jano Lifting Serum, priced at 108, is sold at Guardian, Robinsons,
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        CLEANER AND FRESHER FEEL
        72 18 Enjoy greater comfort during menstruation with the new Laurier F sanitary pad.This new range of sanitary pads comes with the new AbsorbtiF-3D top sheet which has a unique airy surface texture for faster absorption. Available for day and night use. The new Laurier F sanitary pads,priced
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        MORE MILEAGE
        53 18 Maximise your car's performance with the range of energy saving jets from Superione.The jets, consisting of the AirIntake series and the In-Line series, help prolong engine lifespan, reduce fuel consumption and improve the responsiveness of your vehicle. Superione energy saving jets, priced from $48 to $400, are available
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    • Article
      i say YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER'S CHILD
      507 18 AUBREY ESS LAST Sunday, my family and I celebrated Mothers' Day with a cake and a camera. On a more essential level, we managed to spend time with mummy and grandma, treating the occasion as more of an opportunity to relate to our
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    • Letter
      Centres do train kids to be independent
      299 18  -  LEE KIM HUA Letter from Director, Family Services Division, for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports WE REFER to Ms Tan Chor Hoon's letter, "Bottoms-up to being an independent child" (May 11), where she asked if the Ministry of Community
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      144 14 CATHERINE LIM ...AMUSES A male chauvinist gleefully wrote, 'Woman, without her man, is a savage!' A feminist quickly changed it to 'Woman! Without her, man is a savage.' MUSES There's no place for out-dated thinking In the Singapore cosmopolis There's no place for superstition In a relentless technopolis. The private
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon Chang Beer brewer launches mega IPO
      717 19  -  VALERIE LAW Thai Beverage's SGX listing could be biggest since SingTel's valeri e@newstoday.com.sg THAI Beverage Public Company, Thailand's largest brewer, on Friday launched its initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore that could raise up to $1.76 billion. The brewer of Chang Beer will offer
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    • Article
      Pacific Shipping Trust cuts IPO price
      299 19  -  CHOW PENN NEE SINGAPORE'S first business trust launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 222 million units at 45 US cents (71 cents) per unit on Friday, lower than an earlier indicated range. Pacific Shipping Trust (PST) will offer 11.1 million shares to retail
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    • marketwatch
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        ST Index – 2,493.98 -8.20
        4 19 ST Index 2,493.98 -8.20
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        Lock icon Singapore
        59 19 DOW JONES SHARE prices closed mixed on Friday following a third straight day of declines on Wall Street due to fresh worries that US inflation would spur interest-rate increases. The ST Index ended down 8.20 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 2,493.98 points. Gainers led losers 329 to 260
        — DOW JONES  -  59 words
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        World markets
        55 19 tNikkei 225 *****.45 +60.27 +0.42 Hang Seng ASX *****.36 5100.90 +46.04 -10.40 +0.29 -0.36 Taiwan Wtd 7074.15 +40.12 +0.57 Korea Comp 1372.29 +7.14 +0.52 KLCI 944.40 -3.30 -0.36 SET Index 746.33 -1.97 -0.26 Jakarta Comp 1392.99 -7.05 -0.56 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2356.02 314.93 -22.72 +1.69 -0.96 +0.54
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 19 SGX, Bloomberg Gold US$/oz 680.90 Silver US$/oz 12.52 Platinum US$/oz 1,297.80 Rubber cents/kg 399.25 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,424.00 Brant crude US$/barrel 69.69 Information provided by
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        SGX most active
        56 19 IhinaPreci Isiigxiii lingTel Chartered !MG US$ JTAC VsiaPharm )H Global Ihina Sun lelong 0.490 0.575 2.630 1.690 0.060 0.920 0.060 0.290 0.050 0.130 +0.010 -0.030 -0.010 +0.110 +0.005 +0.015 +0.005 +0.025 +0.005 +0.005 +2.1 -5.0 -0.4 +7.0 +9.1 +1.7 +0.6 +9.4 +0.6 +4.0 72,004 47,202 41,754 33,963
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        SGX top rises
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        SGX top falls
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        Your S$l buys
        36 19 us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.6335 0.3346 70.204 4.9125 2.2834 0.4931 5812.9 24,136 Peso A$ Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZ$ NT$ 33.303 0.8290 28.795 599.98 0.7098 5.0743 1.0172 20.173
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    • business news
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        Lock icon Now Apple sues Creative
        397 20 -BLOOMBERG iPod maker accuses the Singapore company of infringing patents APPLE Computer, maker of the iPod music player, sued smaller rival Creative Technology, raising the stakes in the legal dispute over competing devices. Apple claims that Creative Labs, the United States division of Creative Technology, infringes
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      • Article
        Ruling reserved on whether Lew case should proceed
        398 20  -  -LOHCHEEKONG THE judge presiding over the case involving former Member of Parliament Lew Syn Pau on Friday decided to reserve his judgement on whether the trial could proceed. Judicial Commissioner Sundaresh Menon's decision came at the end of the three-and-a-half-day hearing in
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      • Article
        Lock icon Raffles Education to pay cash, issue 3m new shares to buy Path
        223 20 DOW JONES MAINBOARD-listed Raffles Education Corp has offered to buy Path Education Group, a regional education provider, for $15 million. The acquisition will be partly funded by the issue of 3 million new shares at $2.51 each, totalling
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      • Article
        Court decides in Paillart's favour in first of 5 suits
        279 20  -  LEECH ING WERN CHAPTER one of the acrimonious legal tussle between two former top executives of DBS Bank ended yesterday, with DBS' former chief executive Phillipe Paillart winning the first in a series of five lawsuits that he initiated against
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        Free help online for SMEs
        147 20  -  LEECHING WERN SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) looking for ideas to help them start, finance and grow their businesses now have one more source of help a World Bank-developed Web portal called The Singapore Business Toolkit. Developed by International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector
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      Lock icon I'll have the local special, please
      575 21  -  Pearlyn Tham I Do you know the bargains in your neighbourhood? I'VE seen many shopaholics in my lifetime, but surely my colleague Evie takes the cake or in this case the shopping bag. Put her on a desert island and I'd bet my last
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      Lock icon SHOPPINGt for a good cause
      381 22 Handmade by the people from the Society for the Physically Disabled, these cutesy notebooks would surely warm your heart every time you scribble something in it This is not just a simple key chain for holding your keys the "coin" attached to the key chain
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    • makan
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        JUST LIKE IT WAS IN
        751 24  -  Eveline Gan Old-style Malay cuisine ishotatSini La... IN THE old kampung days, Malay farmers used to wrap their lunch usually a home-cooked meal of rice and vegetables without gravy in banana leaves to bring to the fields. This ingenious method of packing meals ensured that
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        KEEPING KAMPUNG-STYLE CUISINE ALIVE
        262 25 Mention Malay cuisine and often, flavourful dishes such as mcc soto, nasi lemak and rendang come to mind. According to Mdm Zulbaidah Marlian, owner of Rumah Makan Minang restaurant and partner of the 40-year-old familyowned Sabar Menanti restaurant, local traditional Malay food is a mishmash of
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          FEAST ON THIS
          118 25 Duan Wu Jie, orthe Dumpling Festival, is just around the corner. Inevitably, the fragrant rice dumplings come to mind. This year, the team of award-winning chefs at Peach Blossoms, Marina Mandarin, have come up with five mouth-watering variations of rice dumplings. Boasting fine quality and taste, this
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          RECHARGE WITH POWER MEALS
          198 25  -  LEE HUI SHAN LEE HUI SHAN Now, fans of Yoshinoya's signature Japanese rice bowls can get even more value with the new Power Meal. Comprising a choice of your favourite rice bowl, chawanmushi, sea coconut dessert and miso soup or an iced passion fruit tea drink.
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        634 23  -  PEARLYN THAM An editor digs out his designer togs for an upcoming show at the National Museum pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg HE BUYS $10 tees from Peninsula Plaza and turns up for this interview in a Levi's shirt but John De Souza is someone with what he calls
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        Beauty and charity well in sync
        553 23  -  -PEARLYNTHAM WOULD it make you feel better if the lipstick in your makeup pouch or the body cleanser in your bathroom has a part to play for charity? Apparently so, going by the example of how MAC Cosmetics' Viva Glam lipstick range has been
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        128 26 As an update of the HP iPAQhw6SIS Mobile Messenger, the hw6965 gives you the same functionalities with the addition of built-in WiFi connectivity. The PDA phone comes with integrated global positioning system capability, a useful navigation tool for travellers. It is also equipped with quad-band
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        DELL LATITUDE D520 NOTEBOOK
        86 26 Dell's newest entry-level notebook, the Latitude D 520, has a starting weight of 2.38 kg and comes with 14.1-inch or 15-inch displays. Customers can choose between Intel Core Duo and Celeron M processors. Business users will appreciate the dual-battery configuration option and the integrated microphone for
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        SONY CYBER-SHOT T30 DIGITAL CAMERA
        138 26 The 7.2-megapixel Sony Cyber-shotT3o camera features a high sensitive mode of up to ISO 1000 to prevent object shake even in low light conditions. With Sony's Clear RAW NR technology, noise that appears in photographs taken in high ISO modes will also be reduced. As
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        COOL LABS BLUETOOTH MIRROR CAR KIT
        161 26 Drivers will no longer have to take their eyes off the road to check the identity of the caller on their mobile phone. With Qool Labs' plug-and-play Bluetooth mirror car kit, the caller's number is displayed clearly and you can also answer phone calls
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      A great way to lower costs of overseas calls
      682 26  -  TERRY LAU Route voice calls from IMs to your phone infotech@newstoday.com.sg YOU know that a product is successful when its name starts being used as a verb, like "I'll skype you" or "Google it". You'll also know it when a range
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      Hit the race track with Vertu
      197 26 TREAT yourself to the Ascent Monza/Silverstone Limited Edition mobile phone from luxury handset maker Vertu. The Monza and the Silverstone the first two models to debut from Vertu's Racetrack Legends series are meant to celebrate the classic race tracks of the world. The Monza
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      PC GAMEREVIEW
      83 27 Auto Assault PROS: Fresh and innovative environment for MMORPG •Simple gameplay Realistic vehicular physics •Interactive game environment CONS: Repetitive Complex crafting system. Feels like a single-player RPG at times. Graphics and audio not as good as established games like World of Warcraft VERDICT: Auto Assault'is refreshing and breaks
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      438 27  -  TREVOR TAN World's first vehicular combat role-playing game offers a breath of fresh air for gamers trevor@newstoday.com.sg WHEN we talk about massively multiplayer online role-play-ing games (MMORPGs), a fantasy environment, like World of Warcraft, usually comes to mind. However, game designers have decided that walking
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        SNEAK PEEK
        122 27 Good news for fashionistas! Next month, you can buy yourself some style with the Motorola Razr V3i D&G Special Edition Created in collaborationvyith^^^R fashion house Dolce I Gabbana,the ultra-thin has a I distinctive liquid[ finish^ person- back™ with™ screensaver^ audio^^^B for power-up and down 1 an polyphonic ring
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        BMW SCORES IN'ENGINE OSCARS'
        118 28 The 507bhp 5.0-litre VlO engine, used in BMW's M 5 and M 6 models, has been crowned the best engine in the world for the second year running. The International Engine of the Year awards given out in Stuttgart, Germany recently -were judged by a panel
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        OPEL SHOWS ITS SPORTY SIDE
        120 28 The Corsa has traditionally been a dependable, if slightly boring, compact hatchback. But this all-new version shows that Opel is making a serious effort to jazz up the model's styling. The car will be available with three or five doors. As with the larger Astra,
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        SECOND NAZA MODEL UNVEILED
        146 28  -  COLIN YONG Malaysian car-maker Naza Corporation took the wraps off its second model, the 206 Bestari, on Wednesday night. The car is essentially a re-badged Peugeot 206 and Naza makes no secret of its French connections there's an "Engineered by Peugeot" badge on the boot lid.
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        771 29  -  LEOWJU-LEN One taste of the 620bhp Ferrari 599 GTB and you'll be hooked news@newstoday.com.sg OH, HOW I wish I'd been a better person up until now. Then my soul would have been stain-free, and I might have been able to trade it in for a Ferrari 599
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        Phaeton attraction with a Singapore twist
        500 29  -  COLIN YONG colin@newstoday.com.sg IMAGES of a satayseiler, a roti prata-makei and two soap-covered kids are not what you expect to see at a photo exhibition on Singapore, especially one being held overseas. These are, however, the "stars" of local lensman's Geoff Ang's collection of
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        A car so green, others will envy you
        739 28  -  LEE U-WEN 26 orders already placed for the 1,497 cc Toyota PriusSingapore's latest hybrid car u-wen@newstoday.com.sg WANT to know just how highly-rated Singapore's latest energy-efficient car is? The first person here to snap up the new Toyota Prius, a petrol electric hybrid
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        619 30  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA Rents are up in newly revamped Marina Square as shoppers welcome the complex's new design and shops shobha@newstoday.com.sg ALTHOUGH the newly renovated Marina Square has raised its rentals, traffic is exceeding pre-renovation highs. The shopping centre, which was officially launched on Thursday,
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        475 30  -  JANECHIAPOCO janec@newstoday.com.sg IN WHAT could make it one of the leading developers in the West Coast, the Hoi Hup Group last week launched The Estiva, the group's fourth consecutive residential development project at Pasir Panjang. Hoi Hup, a subsidiary of Straits Construction
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        254 30  -  JANECHIAPOCO BUKIT Sembawang Estates has just launched 39 units of the fourth phase of Mimosa Terrace in Seletar Hills. The developer is well known for its landed property developments in Sembawang and Seletar. It last launched Straits Gardens along Andrew Avenue in the
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      70 27 Your choice of the right life-changing career Find it all under one Home Come on down for the Home Affairs Uniformed Services Career Seminar. Saturday, 20 May 2006. 10am to 11am or 11.30 am to 12.30pm ICA Auditorium, 10th Floor 45Rfc POLICE (M SCDF BE EITBJIDHDIIifIHV iS^l^t1 The Life Saving
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      1462 32  - stand deliver Elisa Chia elisa@newstoday.com.sg IF THE going was tough for Singapore Idol winner Taufik Batisah, those who hope to duplicate his success had better brace themselves for an even tougher journey. Idol judge Ken Lim was the first to admit he's become "a lot more impatient and less tolerant"
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      White boys do cry
      490 34  -  JULIANA JUNE RASUL Funky underdog Yamin expected to be booted from American Idol, vows to keep singing Juliana r@newstoday.com.sg ELLIOTT Yamin bade a tearful farewell to American Idol this week. Earlier considered to be "potentially the best male vocalist in the history of the show" by
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      Lock icon IDOL REJECT CROWNED KING OF ARTICHOKE TOWN
      110 34 -AP CASTROVILLE, California Off-key pop idol William Hung has something new to crow about: He's being crowned Artichoke King in the small city that calls itself "artichoke capital of the world". Hung, 23, the crooner who butchered Ricky Martin's She Bangs tune on
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      117 34 —AFP Harry Potters stolen flying car has been found after mysteriously disappearing from a film set, British newspapers reported. The pale blue 1962 Ford Anglia, driven through the air by the boy wizard and sidekick Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter fWms, was stolen last
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      SHOWCASE OF TURKISH FILMS
      54 34 The Turkish embassy and the Arts House present Cinematic Dreams Turkish Film Week. Turkish films from the "Yesilcam" (Turkish Hollywood) period and the New Turkish Cinema movement will be screened at the Arts House until May 28. The line-up includes features, short films and documentaries. For
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      NEW ADDITION TO KIDS GROUP HI-5
      74 34 Pre-school favourites Hi-5 welcome a new member. Sun Park (picture), who replaces mum-to-be Kathleen de Leon. The latter is about seven months pregnant with her first child with former Savage Garden singer Daniel Jones. Sun Park made her debut on the UK tour of
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      OPENSTAGE RETURNS TO TIMBRE
      47 34 Monthly Open Stage returns on Saturday at Timbre Music Bistro The Substation Garden with performances by Stoned Revivals, The Love Experiment, Documentary in Amber and Embryo starting at 10pm. The event also features a flea market which will run from 6pm to 2am.
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    287 36  -  —AMELYNN LIONG IN LINE with the ongoing quiet-is-the- new-loud trend, intimate indoor settings are gradually gaining popularity with music lovers. Earshot, a book and music cafe at The Arts House, is one place where musicians can get up close and personal
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    479 36  -  AMELYNN LIONG Punk-pop's new band has divine intervention to thank for its existence a melynnl@newstoday.com.sg NO ONE could accuse Tom Delonge of being humble. While it might sound bold of Delonge, the frontman for the now defunct punk-pop band Blink 182, to claim that his new group
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    268 37  -  ASHRAFSAFDAR Will good response in US for new piece by Theatre Works be repeated locally? ashraf@newstoday.com.sg TWO weeks before its US debut at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, Ong Keng Sen's Geisha has sold out its entire run there, with about 2,000 tickets
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    THEATREREVIEW
    293 37  -  Ashraf Safdar by Man of Letters A TORRID socio-political climate does wonders for a musical. Just as Andrew Lloyd Webber abandoned the gush that made him famous, scoring with his first major award-winning musical in 15 years The Beautiful Game soccer set against a period of sectarian violence in
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        49 38  -  Neil Humphreys Agent Ethan Hunt returns to save the world in the J J Abrams-directed third instalment of the franchise, which goes back to the basics of the first film and elbows out most of the pretentious nonsense that masqueraded as style in the indulgent sequel.
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        34 38 Felix Cheong A thought-provoking French film about a young father who begins the painful climb out of childhood into fatherhood and responsibility when his wife panics after he sells their son for money.
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        THE DA VINCI CODE
        48 38  -  Jeanine Tan The big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's book is a standard thriller where the supposedly blasphemous allegations made in the source material come across as really far-out theories put forth by a bunch of wannabe academics.- STANDARD THRILLER: The Da Vinci Code. j
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        35 38 JT Ironically enough for a film about women, this drama about three generations of Chinese women starring Joan Chen and Zhang Ziyi displays little understanding of the life and times of real women.
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        36 38 -JT A Thai action film that is high on camp, low on common sense and so unselfconsciously cheesy that audiences are advised to leave their brains at the door and go along forthe ride.
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        42 38 -FC Part mystery, part horror, the main selling point here is that we know from the outset who the ghost is. So, the film is less concerned with pulling off cheap tricks and scares than exploring the motivations of the characters.-
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        34 38 -JT Tantalising as the title may be for some people, this South Korean romantic comedy about two grownups who harbour a shameful secret makes a big fuss out of nothing at all.
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        37 38 -FC Director Wolfgang Petersen seems so eager to unleash the budget in special effects and set pieces in this disaster movie that he fails to develop his characters as people we care about and empathise with.
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        41 38 -NH In this film about a woman's quest for sex over love, sex happens in every location, in every position, in every orifice, every 10 minutes, proving that this is little more than soft porn masquerading as art.
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    225 38  -  Ashraf Safdar by DVDREVIEW FILM: The first scene in this film is a delicately crafted gem. Director Michael Haneke trains his camera, keeping it perfectly still, on a Parisian street: Cars drive by, some people walk into a house and seconds tick by. But before this tableau becomes indulgent
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    284 38  -  Lan De Cotta by DVDREVIEW FILM: Mix together a little bit of The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Harry Potter, and what you get is a lot of fun in the form of Nanny McPhee. This children's movie revolves around the Browns, whose widower dad (Colin Firth)
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      328 42 HELPLINE EMERGENCY LINES City Gas (to report gas supply 1800-752-1800 interruption, low pressure and leakage) Civil Defence (Fire Emergency Ambulance) 995 Non-emergency ambulance 1777 Police 999 Police hotline 1800-255-0000 SP PowerGrid 1800-778-8888/ (to report power failure) 6778-8888 Traffic Police 6547-1818 Water Supply 1800-284-6600 HELPLINES —GENERAL Samaritans of Singapore 1800-221-4444 Society
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      649 43 Have a clear agenda and encourage open discussion PARTICIPANTS checking their SMSes, carrying on side conversations or stifling yawns these are clear signs that a meeting has gone off the rails. More often, though, the signs of an unproductive meeting are more subtle,
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      496 45 —AP Clippers force Suns into another Game 7 with Brand's help LOS ANGELES Elton Brand and the Clippers became the second team from Los Angeles to take the Phoenix Suns to the limit in these playoffs. Unlike the Lakers, the Clippers will take some momentum into
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      1010 46  -  DARREN LAI Table tennis star pips swim queen Jos and shot put dame Zhang for top sports award da rren@newstoday.com.sg TEAM-MATE Zhang Xueling stole her thunder at the last SEA Games, dumping her for gold in the women's singles final. But that failed to prevent Li
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      899 47  -  LI ZAI SHI RHB SINGAPORE CUP 2006 Home United v Chonburi FC sports@newstoday.com.sg REIGNING champions Home United will seek solace in the RHB Singapore Cup on Saturday, after crashing out of the AFC Cup in midweek. Home, who have lifted the Singapore Cup a record
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      189 47  -  -DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2006 Young Lions 4 Woodlands Wellington 2 KHAIRUL Amri (picture) produced a virtuoso performance capped by a superb hat-trick to help the Young Lions defeat Woodlands Wellington 4-2 in an S-League clash on Friday at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The diminutive
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      615 48 iWEEKENDifItKi WITH ASIAN HOCKEY FEDERATION SECRETARY GENERAL TAN SRI P ALAGENDRA HE WAS appointed Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) secretary general in 1993. But Tan Sri P Alagendra was also a big football fan. The former Malaysian hockey star he played in the 1956 Olympics was
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      450 48  -  DARREN LAI da rren@newstoday.com.sg JACK Wong knows how difficult it is to win the Singapore International Open. This year, he knows it is going to be even harder, as he attempts to defend his crown. Wong, dubbed "Mr Perfect"
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      610 49 -AFP Irritated by Ronaldo, Aloisi says Socceroos will be up for their June 18 clash SYDNEY Five-times champions Brazil have all the pressure on them ahead of their World Cup clash with Australia in Germany next month, qualification hero John Aloisi said Friday. Alaves striker Aloisi, who
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      240 49 LONDON Chelsea's Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba told The Sun on Friday he wants to leave English football because he is fed up with the criticism he has received. The 28-year-old, who cost £24 million ($71.5 million) from Marseille two years ago, had to issue
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      Lock icon Rooney a big blow, but Pele still backs England
      369 49 -AFP LONDON Pele believes England can reach the final of this year's World Cup even if striker Wayne Rooney fails to recover from injury. The Brazil great, three times a World Cup winner, has told English fans not to despair ahead
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        116 50 FOR the first time, all 64 games of the 2006 World Cup in Germany will be broadcast live in the United States. The world's most popular sport remains a minority interest in the US, compared with commercial juggernauts like American football, but football is gaining currency
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        NEDVED MULLS RETIREMENT
        82 50 JUVENTUS midfielder Pavel Nedved (picture) dropped a hint that he could bow out from football after playing for the Czech Republic at the World Cup. "I have notyettakenthe decision if I will or will not finish my international career or my career as a player, but the
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        101 50 CZECH Republic midfielder Vladimir Smicer admitted that he may miss the World Cup due to a prolonged thigh injury. "There is a question mark but I hope to recommence normal training with the team during the upcoming session in Seefeld (Austria)," he said. Bordeaux and former Liverpool
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        NO TICKETS? GO PARTY
        106 50 THE mayor of Berlin has promised to host a non-stop street party in the centre of the capital with eight giant screens showing World Cup matches for fans who failed to get tickets. The party on the Avenue will kick off on June 7, two days
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    1001 50 -AGENCIES Gunners' prayers answered as superstar snubs Barca to end months of speculation LONDON The hurt will surely no longer sting as much. Arsenal may have lost a Champions League final in agonising fashion on Wednesday, but the clouds have cleared and the
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    529 50 ROME Italy coach Marcello Lippi was questioned by magistrates here Friday as part of their investigation into the dealings of football agents GEA. The Rome investigation is one of several nationwide probes into alleged corruption in Italian football. GEA is run by Alessandro Moggi, the son
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    203 51  -  COLIN TAN Letter from I REFER to your article "For once, he's so powerless (May 19)". There is a big difference complaining about bias and about incompetence. RelookThierry Henry's quotes carefully. He didn't exactly say the referee was biased. As you said in your article, Henry doesn't
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