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    16 1 weekendTODAY September 16 17, 2006 mica<p)l9o/07/2006 /A=ry]j\COßP share your free newspaper we set you thinking todayonline.com
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    Lock icon WHEN'S OUR TURN?
    1587 1  -  LEE U-WEN —ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LEECHINGWERN Westerners have always headed IMF, World Bankbut for how much longer, with Asia on the rise? u-wen@newstoday.com.sg SIXTY is a good age to have a makeover, but the two mature ladies are in no hurry. The complexion of the faces that
    —ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LEECHINGWERN  -  1,587 words
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon 22 of 27 activists allowed to enter Singapore: S2006 committee
      729 2  -  ANSLEY NG DERRICK A PAULO -ANSLEYNG AND a nsley@newstoday.com.sg AFTER receiving input from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on Friday, the ***** organising committee announced that it has decided to allow the entry of 22 of the
      -ANSLEYNG; WEETECK HIAN  -  729 words
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      Lock icon My focus is S´pore, not the PAP: MM
      633 3  -  LEECHINGWERN chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THE day Singapore can produce a political opposition group as strong as the People's Action Party (PAP) is the day the Republic is in a "safer condition", said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at the Raffles Forum on Friday. In
      ERNEST CHUA  -  633 words
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      Was there an indecent proposal?
      783 6  -  LOHCHEEKONG Court hears of a $100,000 'sexual contract' between NTU professor and mistress cheekong@newstoday.com.sg ON Friday, the tangled sexual liaisons between a nightclub singer and three men got messier, as the lawyer of disgraced university lecturer Bryan Ngoi Kok Ann exposed the shady past of
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    • Article
      Jetstar, Thai Airways first to fly to Bangkok's new airport on Friday
      477 6  -  TORCHING LI IN BANGKOK chingli@newstoday.com. sg DESPITE being plagued by safety issues and a chronically delayed commencement schedule, the first commercial flights arrived and departed safely from Bangkok's much-anticipated Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Friday. Singapore's low-cost airline Jetstar
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon TWO JI MEMBERS RELEASED
        70 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Two Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) mem-bers-detained under the Internal Security Act since September 2002 -have been released. Said Ismail and Munain Turru were released on Sept 14 and placed on two-year Restriction Orders, which limit their movements. Both men had cooperated with the Internal Security
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        Lock icon CUBA, S´PORE DISCUSS DENGUE
        44 6 938 LIVE Singapore and Cuba are exploring ways to collaborate on dengue con- trol. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, on a visit to Cuba, called on his counterpart, with whom he exchanged views on possible healthcare cooperation on the disease.
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        Lock icon FUEL WARS BEGIN, AGAIN ...
        65 6 FUEL WARS BEGIN, AGAIN -938 LIVE In what could be the start of anoth er round of weekend competition among petrol companies, petrol pump prices at ExxonMobil are down 5 cents a litre. The fuel company said it was taking the lead in the discounts by dropping the price for
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        Lock icon JETSTAR TAKES CAIRNS ROUTE
        105 6 TORCHING LI In a unique codeshare arrangement, Jetstar Australia will take over an unprofitable Qantas route from Singapore to Cairns via Darwin in a move which will see Jetstar Asia providing its Australian counterpart the planes and staff for a fixed fee. Jetstar will be offering
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      44 2 LIVING FAITH CHURCH" www.thelivingfaith.org "For I the LORD thy GOd will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear not; I will h©l P thee. The Bible, Isaiah 41:13 Join us at Singapore Conference Hall Speaker Rev Dr John Shepherd Lim Come <& be blessedl
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  • Singapore news
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      Lock icon NGOS VERSUS NGOS IN BATAM
      605 4  -  DERRICK A PAULO IN BATAM derrick@newstoday.com.sg THE civil society forum in Batam began on Friday morning with a demonstration but not against the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. Instead, a group of local nongovernmental organisations stood in the rain, outside the centre where
      _00 BOON KEONG  -  605 words
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      A new voice at the table
      672 4  -  CHOW PENN NEE WHEN the ministers of the IMFWorld Bank meetings gather for their discussions on Monday and Tuesday, there may be a new voice at the table. Civil society organisations (CSOs) such as the Australian Council for International Development want to join in
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      Lock icon Where the early student gets the Xbox
      405 8  -  SHERALYN TAY Northlight School aims to get its students excited about school with novel rewards, hands-on lessons shera lyn@newstoday.com.sg PRINCIPAL of Northlight School (NLS) Mrs Chua Yen Ching once remarked that, "instead of running back home and walking to school, we want our
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      Lock icon 10 S'poreans set their sights on new heights
      265 8 -938UVE TEN Singaporeans will be racing up South-east Asia's highest mountain later this month, as part of the 20th Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon what is said to be the toughest mountain race in the world. Male participants have four-and-a-half hours to complete
      -938UVE  -  265 words
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      Lock icon 36,400 new jobs created in Q2
      199 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Singapore economy created 36,400 new jobs in the second quarter, thanks to sustained economic growth. The figure was slightly below the preliminary estimate of 36,500 jobs created. The gains from April to June were higher than the 31,700 in the same
      — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  199 words
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      Lock icon Final farewells to the inspiring Ms Choy
      307 8 -938 LIVE THERE was little that she had not done in her long 96-year life. But war heroine Elizabeth Choy's legacy goes far beyond her actions. It can be seen in the large numbers of people who have been touched by her in
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      Lock icon Church responds to exorcism suit
      266 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE Novena Church has responded to the suit filed by the woman who claimed that an exorcism performed there two years ago had caused her post-traumatic stress and depression. In the defence filed on Friday against the million-dollar civil suit by Amutha Valli
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      567 9 With HSBC's Ssl Treats, not only did our credit cardholders redeem fantastic Ssl deals, 150 winners from our five lucky draws have also each won a pair of return air tickets to Bangkok on Jet Star. 5 August 2006 Draw 10 August 2006 Draw Ang Kirn Hong Janet Lee May
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  • world news
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      Lock icon The skeletons in Mahathir's cupboard
      1001 10 INTER PRESS SERVICE Opening up facts of the '1998 scandal' may show how a judiciary can be manipulated by politicians KUALA LUMPUR A dark and shameful episode in the history of Malaysia's judiciary hidden from public view for the past 18 years is finally unravelling
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
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        Lock icon FORMER ELECTION COMMISSIONERS GUILTY OF MISHANDLING BY-ELECTIONS
        107 10 -DPA A Thai court on Friday found three disgraced election commissioners guilty of dereliction of duty for arranging by-elections after the April 2 polls and sentenced them to two years in prison. The Bangkok Criminal Court had initially sentenced former commissioners Vasana Puemlarp,
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        Lock icon FOUR YEAR WAIT FOR AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP
        68 10 -DPA Proficiency in English, a knowledge of Australian history and a grounding in civic duties would also be required before those holding permanent residency visas could graduate to become full citizens. The proposed changes are intended to at least isolate if not weed out
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        Lock icon CHARISMATIC ECONOMIST LEAVES POLITICS
        112 10 -AFP Mr Heizo Takenaka (picture), the charismatic Japanese economist who pushed through Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's trademark privatisation plans, said on Friday he will leave politics this month as his boss retires. A former visiting professor at Harvard, Mr Takenaka, who is Minister of Internal Affairs,
        -AFP; SFF  -  112 words
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      Lock icon Japan gets first glimpse of Prince Hisahito
      158 12 -AFP TOKYO Japan on Friday got its first sighting of Prince Hisahito, the long-await-ed new heir to the throne, who had a full head of hair and slept calmly in his mother's arms as he was brought out of the hospital. Prince Hisahito,
      -AFP; EPA  -  158 words
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      Lock icon IAEA: US Congress misled on Iran nukes
      305 12 —THE GUARDIAN LOS ANGELES The United Nations' nuclear watchdog has attacked the United States Congress for what it termed an "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated" report on Iran's nuclear programme. In a letter to the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives' intelligence committee,
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      Lock icon Calm before the storm
      451 12 -AFP Riot police ready for clashes; anti-Chen protests go into 7th day TAIPEI Tens of thousands of Taiwanese protesters were expected to again fill the streets of Taipei on Friday in a bid to step up the pressure on embattled President Chen Shui-bian. Organisers of a
      -AFP; AFF  -  451 words
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      Lock icon Pope's comments about Islam rile Muslims in Mid-East, Asia
      432 12 —AFP NEW DELHI Pope Benedict XVI faced growing Muslim anger on Friday over remarks in which he linked Islam with violence, with several muslim nations calling on him to retract the statement. In Gaza City, a grenade exploded near the oldest
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      Lock icon Thought-controlled tech that will cost you an arm, or $60,000
      322 13 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON When her doctors first called her "The Bionic Woman," 26-year-old Claudia Mitchell did not understand the reference to the 1970s TV show about secret agent, who was part-woman and part-machine. Yesterday, doctors revealed that she is only one
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      Lock icon College gunman killed himself
      469 13 —AFP Personal blog reveals a hateful, violent and suicidal young man MONTREAL Kimveer Gill revealed by his own website to be a hate-filled, suicidal Goth died from a self-inflicted wound and not from a police gunshot as earlier thought An autopsy showed that the 25-year-old trenchcoat-wearing
      —AFP; AFF  -  469 words
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      Absolute fare comparison is misleading
      208 14  -  LIMBOONHEE Letter from THE Public Transport Council (PTC) claims that fares here are still cheaper, citing the average bus fare in Hong Kong as $1.29 compared to 66 cents in Singapore. The average train fare in London was quoted as $2.76, compared with 94 cents
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      Lock icon Leaving, on a jet plane ... sniff!
      819 14  - Leaving, on a jet plane sniff! NEIL HUMPHREYS WEEKEND WITH news@newstoday.com.sg THIS is the first "Dear John" letter I've written in my life. Well, the second actually, but I suspect writing on the whiteboard "Neil Humphreys won't hold hands with Hayley Stewart in the playground any more" doesn't really count
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    • Letter
      It is often the dying who make the right decisions
      247 14  -  SIEWNGUNGCHIA Letter from I REFER to Frances Ong Hock Lin's commentary, "Illness and the final directive" (Sept 14). I support her view that we should respect the decision of those living out their last days. Very often, it is those
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    • shoptalk
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        CHOCOLATE SURPRISE
        64 16 Satisfy your sweet tooth with the new Nestle Drumstick with Kit Kat. Each cone now comes with a full-sized Kit Kat chocolate wafer encased in rich and creamy chocolate ice cream.The result: A crunchy and rich chocolatey taste with every bite. Nestle Drumstick with Kit Kat, priced at
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        DRINK YOUR GRAINS
        71 16 Complement your diet with the Daisy Multigrain Milk.This high-calcium and low-fat milk is made with grains, such as barley, oats and malt, to give you a vitamin and energy boost. It is also suitable for those who are lactose intolerant. The new Daisy Multigrain Milk, priced at
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        BOTTLES OF GOODNESS
        154 16 This month, Eu Yan Sang introduces new additions to its highlypopular range of bottled bird's nest products.The Eu Yan Sang Mini Swallow Treat comes in three variants Premium Concentrated Bird's Nest with Rock Sugar and Sugar Free variants; and the Hua Yan Concentrated Bird's Nest with Rock
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        HANDY DISPENSER
        89 16 If you are prone to cutting your finger when using a tape dispenser, you might want to check this out.The new Scotch RefillableTape Dispenser is specially-designed with a covered blade so that your hands do not come into contact with it. Its ready-to-dispense system offers greater convenience as
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    • The logic behind strict house rules
    • Letter
      How hotels can lure back cabbies
      197 16  -  RAYMUND KOH JOO GUAN Letter from I REFER to the article "Taxi drought hits Marina area hotels" (Sept 15). Some hotels have been chasing away taxis waiting for passengers outside their doors. Why should they now lament that no taxis are available? When I
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    • Letter
      Price out the fake drugs
      302 17  -  LAI YEW CHAN Why not licence generic manufacturers? Letter from I REFER to the commentary "Vigilance is the best medicine" (Sept 8). The fake drug invasion is a piracy issue of sorts, one of the main causes being the unaffordable prices of patented drugs. These
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    • Letter
      Shouldn't Japanese WWII artefacts be returned?
      197 17  -  KOJI NODA Letter from RECENTLY, I visited the old Ford Factory where the British Commander in Singapore, Lieutenant-Gener-al Percival, signed the surrender document in 1942. It is now a wartime exhibition of Singapore. The first thing that caught my attention was a Japanese flag,
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    • Letter
      There's plenty of research and info on SingTel out there
      268 17  -  PETERHENG Letter from Di rector. Corporate Communications Sing Tel I REFER to the letter by Mr Leong Sze Hian, "Sing Tel should explain" (Sept 13). In line with the Singapore Financial Reporting Standards, Sing Tel has ceased amortisation of goodwill
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  • Businesstoday
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      Lock icon IMF still a help to rising Asia: MD
      532 18  -  CHRISTIE LOH Spore meetings to reform IMF in line with global changes christie@newstoday.com.sg AS THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeks to move with the times, the organisation remains relevant to Asia 10 years after the region's last economic shock, according to managing
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      Lock icon IMF's new loans rose to $19.6b last year
      104 18 -BLOOMBERG THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved US$l2.4 billion ($19.6 billion) in new loans in the financial year ended March 31 more than six times the previous year. The rise was mainly because of the US$9.9-billion loan that the IMF advanced to
      -BLOOMBERG  -  104 words
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      Lock icon Draft G7 statement stresses vigilance on world's ongoing economic imbalances
      263 18 -DOW JONES GLOBAL growth remains strong but vigilance is needed on the world's ongoing economic imbalances, according to a draft of the Group of Seven (G7) statement, a G7 official said on Friday. Deputy finance ministers and central bank governors
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    • marketwatch
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        ST Index — 2,521.91 +2.94
        4 18 ST Index 2,521.91 +2.94
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        Lock icon Singapore
        112 18 DOW JONES SHARE prices ended steady after a quiet session on Friday as many players sat on the sidelines ahead of this weekend's Group of Seven meeting. The ST Index rose 2.94 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 2,521.91. Advancers were narrowly ahead of decliners 265 to 256 as
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        Lock icon World markets
        60 18 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.93 -75.46 -0.47 Hang Seng ASX *****.65 5036.40 +54.20 -34.00 +0.32 -0.67 Taiwan Wtd 6601.09 +02.22 +1.25 Korea Comp 1361.10 +2.35 +0.17 KLCI 950.99 +1.09 +0.20 SET Index 700.61 -1.36 -0.19 Jakarta Comp 1465.70 +4.40 +0.30 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 2434.06
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        SGX most active
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        SGX top rises
        69 18 fhai Prime200US$ 5.950 +0.500 :apitalandCS***** 0.440 +0.200 :iTYDEV 10.200 +0.200 CapitalandCS***** PDC Corp Yongnam W*****6 0.440 0.015 0.015 +03.3 +50.0 +50.0 IBS 10.700 +0.200 5IA2OO 14.400 +0.200 /suture 11.600 +0.200 LabroyMarMBL***** CoscoCorpSGA***** SSE50ETFSGA*****7 0.100 0.320 0.595 +42.9 +42.2 +33.7 5SE50ETFSGA*****7 0.595 +0.150 (S Energy 2.390 +0.110 lardine
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        SGX top falls
        68 18 MritSem 19.800 -0.200 AutranW*****3 0.005 -50.0 :reativ8 50 10.200 -0.200 (spCorp 14.700 -0.200 \PB 15.400 -0.100 Sapphire 0.005 SPHDBS8CW*****2 0.005 KepLandBNPeCW*****5 0.025 -50.0 -50.0 -37.5 IMH400USS 17.900 -0.100 HSI162D0SGA0B1129 0.200 -0.065 JairyFarm 900 US$ 2.980 -0.060 h Royal 2.600 -0.060 itarHub 2.360 -0.060 Benshjn 20k 0.010 Capi1alandDBePW*****
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 18 US$ 0.6338 UK£ 0.3360 Yen 74.529 HK$ 4.9317 RM 2.3282 Euro 0.4981 Rupiah 5786.4 Baht 23.633 Peso 31.895 AS 0.8395 Indian Rs 29.239 Won 606.87 C$ 0.7077 Yuan 5.0360 NZ$ 0.9575 NT$ 20.861
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        Commodities
        20 18 Gold US$/oz 586.00 Silver US$/oz 10.95 Platinum US$/oz 1,179.50 Rubber cents/kg 299.75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1,523.00 Brent US$/barrel 64.73
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      Lock icon It's got a PHD in media
      504 19  -  JANE CHIAPOCQ Agency's opening here is part of worldwide expansion strategy to become 'the best' ja nec@newstoday.com.sg PHD Worldwide, one of the top in its field in the United Kingdom and the self-de-scribed "nice" strategic media agency, opened its Singapore office yesterday. Taking over
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      Lock icon Local firms salsa to Latin America
      203 19 CHANNEL NEWSASIA LATIN America, especially Mexico and Brazil, is fast-becoming a top investment destination for Singapore firms. According to a survey by IE Singapore, 86 per cent of Singapore-based businesses there reported profits last year. The survey also showed that the wholesale sector drew
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      Lock icon Singapore's retail sales rise again
      174 19 -BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S retail sales in July rose for a 17th month, boosted by a record number of tourists visiting the Republic and as a strengthening labour market lifted consumer confidence. The retail sales index increased 2.7 per cent from a year earlier after gaining 5.1
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      Lock icon YTL wins bid for Sentosa Cove site
      198 19 BLOOMBERG YTL Corporation Berhad, Malaysia's biggest builder, won a bid to build homes on a $50.2 million site on Sentosa, marking the developer's entry into the Republic's property market. Sentosa Cove, a Government-run residential project on the resort island, awarded a site for
      – BLOOMBERG; TODAY FILE PHOTC  -  198 words
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      Lock icon CORPORATEBRIEFS
      248 19 BLOOMBERG -DOW JONES CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore Airlines filled more of its seats and cargo space in August, helped by the northern hemisphere's summer travel demand. The airline filled an average 68.5 per cent of its combined passenger and cargo capacity last month, compared with 67.3 per cent in the
      BLOOMBERG; -DOW JONES; — CHANNEL NEWSASIA  -  248 words
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  • wealth personal finance & investment
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      Lock icon More than a marine electrical equipment seller
      813 22  -  VALERIE LAW BH Global looks at becoming a logistics and supply chain company va lerie@newstoday.com.sg ON THE surface, BH Global Marine may appear like an ordinary trader of marine electrical equipment, but one look at its computerised 80,000 sq ft of storage space
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      A MATTER OF QUALITY
      543 22  -  VALERIE LAW investorprotile va lerie@newstoday.com.sg PRUDENTIAL Asset Management Singapore (PAMS) recently won the "Most Improved Retail Fund House in Singapore for 2005" merit award by Asia Asset Management magazine (January 2006) and Gold award in the Reader's Digest Singapore Trusted Brand Awards 2006 for the "Most
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      Lock icon Get a whiff of this
      699 23  -  with Pearlyn Tham Aromatherapeutic skincare products? Smells like a winner I'VE never had green fin-gers-the only things that I've grown in my life are sea monkeys and my waistline. And the closest I've got to the world of botany was when I had to comb
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      SO GOOD YOU COULD ALMOST EAT IT
      852 24  -  LYNETTE KOH Askincare store like a deli, 3 pillow like a burger-this is one retail concept that melts in the mouth lynette@newstoday.com.sg FHE next time you are on a shopping marathon and find yourself in sudden need of refreshment, take a good look
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    • style
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        Seents of heaven
        712 25 Pearlyn Tham I (pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg) sniffs out beauty I products that I will make you I look and feel as I good as you'll smell I SLEEP TIGHT, LOOK RIGHT These days, even while you sleep, your beauty regimen can still kick into action. After all, it's been
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        Pump up the volume
        293 25  -  PEARLYNTHAM THE next time you use your hairdryer, your curling tongs or your hair straightener, be sure to keep close at hand the Hot range of hairstyling products from Studio Line by L'Oreal Paris. This range comprises three products Hot Straight, Hot Curl and the new
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        STREET HAWKER
        252 26 todaywithmoseslim mosesl im@newstoday.com. sg Hawkers used to sell their wares or food in the street on some form of vehicle.They would go places, and be at different places at different times. Except on special occasions when permission is granted, these hawkers are almost extinct in Singapore today. Even
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        693 26  -  Eveline Gan Traditional dishes get a dose of modernity atthis concept outlet GLIDING past me on a conveyor belt, piping hot siewmai in mini steamers and plates of dim sum beckoned. With so many tasty morsels within reach, it wasn't easy to maintain restraint "Hang on," I
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          222 27 BERNADETTE CHONG Why did the chicken lover cross the road? To get to the nearest Pizza Hut outlet, of course. Pizza Hut's new Triple Chicken Cheesy Bites Stuffed Crust Pizza (picture), available until Oct 16, will tempt even the most particular of chicken lover;.. Topped
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          189 27 BERNADEHE CHONG If you've always wanted a healthier diet but never knew where to start, the Healthy Gourmet Tours, organised by the Health Promotion Board (HPB), are for you. Held in conjunction with the National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 2006, these food tours offer you the chance
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        1499 28 Embark on the OCBC-Makansutra Food Trail where famous culinary personalities will present you with an array of impressive meals at their popular restaurants. Look forward to the privileges and the specially created dishes on the OCBC menus when you dine at these places. DOLCE VITA Chef Edward Voon's
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        473 30 BLOOMBERG Microsoft's new music and video player to challenge Apple's iPod MICROSOFT Corp has unveiled its Zune digital music and video player that will go on sale this Christmas in competition with Apple Computer Inc's iPod. The player features a 30-gigabyte hard drive, comes in black, white
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        428 30  -  ARIEL TAM IT'S not even Christmas, yet Apple has already started to dish out some nice goodies in the form of new and improved iPod players. Available in black and white, the new iPod sports a brighter 2.5-inch screen and lets you tweak the degree
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          162 30 BENQ JOYBOOK 131 THIS LAPTOP'S GOT A LOT THE whole tech world seems caught up in Intel and its dual-core processors, forgetting that its rival, AMD, also has a few good ones on its plate. AMD fans looking for a dual-core capable laptop will be glad to know that the
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          138 30 HP is taking a shot at cracking the lucrative small office-home office (SoHo) market with the monochrome LaserJet MlOO5 machine. For starters, the MlOO5 lets you save space with its small footprint only 17.2x14.3 inches and yet boasts all the functions of a printer, scanner
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          147 30 THE Motorola ROKR E2 is the next incarnation of Motorola's music phone sans iTunes. With this phone, you can now transfer songs over a fast USB 2.0 connection and upgrade the memory to 2GB via an SD card slot. The phone has dedicated buttons on
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          158 30 DIGITAL cameras and all other gadgets for that matter -are becoming more complex to use as they are equipped with more features. That's why it's nice to see the Olympus FE-190 being touted as a camera that's aimed at the snap-shooter and focuses on ease of
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        376 31  -  SOLE SOLOMON IN HOCHI MINH CITY solomon@newstoday.com.sg DURING an evening when high fashion and technology shared the spotlight in Ho Chin Minh City last week, Nokia unveiled its latest premium phone and three additions to its L'Amour collection. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition premium mobile
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        589 31  -  TREVOR TAN Mission-based game Civ City: Rome entertains despite its flaws trevor@newstoday.com.sg WHAT do you get when you mix the ingredients of highly-acclaimed strategy game Civilization with the popular citybuilding game Simdty and add in a robust dash of Roman flavour? You get Civ City: Rome
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        291 31 BLOOMBERG NINTENDO Co will start selling its latest video-game console on Nov 19 in the United States, two days after Sony Corp is scheduled to release its new Play Station 3, to attract holiday shoppers. Priced at U*****.99 (about $395), the Wii console costs
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        196 31 FANCY chatting on Windows Live Messenger for free? i-mode users, now you can. Star Hub is exclusively offering the popular instant messaging service for free till the end of the year. To start chatting, current users just need to spend a few minutes downloading the Windows
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        720 32  -  COLIN YONG The sharp-suited new Volvo SBO is a real contender in the big saloon class colin@newstoday.com.sg HAVING a common family look for a whole range of products is all fine and well, but has Volvo taken the idea a bit too far with its latest flagship saloon?
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        330 32  -  COLIN YONG IT'S been a long time coming but the world's first hydrogen-powered production car will finally be available in early 2007. Apart from having an extra refuelling door above the normal one, the BMW Hydrogen 7 looks little different from a
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        475 33  -  NICKSYN news@newstoday.com.sg THERE'S actually something to be said for Singaporean motorists' penchant for big cars with small engines. They may not be the quickest machines on the road but as a general rule, the weenier an engine's capacity, the nicer its demeanour. Hyundai's
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        670 33  -  COLIN YONG Biennial event promises concept cars and world premieres galore colin@newstoday.com.sg GOOD news for those in the market for a car a bumper crop of new models will be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in a fortnight's time, with some due
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        390 34  -  SHOBHATSERING BHALLA HDB rolls out built-to-order studio apartments designed for elderly shobha@newstoday.com.sg THE Housing Development Board (HDB) yesterday launched its first Studio Apartment (SA) project under the Sep 06 BTO (Build-to-Order) exercise. Together with the SA, it also launched its new fourbedroom standard flats
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        557 34  -  -SHOBHATSERINGBHALLA EVEN as Singapore's buoyant residential property market appears to be able to do no wrong on the back of assuring economic and housing fundamentals, the opposite is true in a favourite destination of Singaporeans Australia. The so-called soft landing for the Australian housing market
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      1243 36  -  Juliana June Rasul YOUR average Social Studies textbook may characterise 50s and 60s Singapore as a time of strife and political tension, but Tom O'Brien remembers no such thing. "Swimming every day that was our life," said the 53-year-old, who lived in Singapore for two years
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      195 36 When writer and photographer Derek Tait, who lived in Singapore from 1965 to 1968, started up a simple website five years ago for ex-students of the Royal Naval School at Sembawang, it only had five photos. To date, he has heard from former schoolmates all over the world. Some
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      240 38  -  —ZULOTHMAN TWO guitar virtuosos are coming to Singapore for one-night-only concerts. British guitar legend Eric Clapton will breeze through for a concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Jan 13 while Swedish rocker Yngwie Malmsteen will perform at Fort Canning Park on Nov 9. Clapton, who
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      813 38  -  FELIX CHEONG .Singapore sexually-repressed? Not anymore... plus@newstoday.com.sg SINGING the body electric. And erotising it. Where once we were uptight and tight-lipped about matters of the birds and bees, the buzz in the arts these days is that it's okay to talk about the touchy-feely stuff that goes on
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        496 40  -  FELIX CHEONG Star of The Banquet, Daniel Wu brings a vulnerability to his role in a way only an American-born Chinese can plus@newstoday.com.sg IF SHAKESPEARE were alive to cast an actor for the role of Hamlet, he might choose someone like Daniel Wu. Tall, suave and
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        281 40 —AGENCIES LOS ANGELES The latest rock star has been crowned. Rock Star: Supernova named its its winner on Thursday, with Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted, and Gilby Clarke selecting Canadian Lukas Rossi to serve as the lead singer for their suddenly untitled newly formed rock band.
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        298 42 -AP LONDON A childhood tale set in Libya, a 19th-century Australian saga and a story of love and loss in World War II are among the finalists announced on Friday for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction. As usual, the choices were
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          243 42  -  THANASEGARI N D WRI+TES I HAVE been impressed with the improvements in the various local programmes telecast on MediaCorp TV Vasantham Central, including Miss Vasantham. Compared to similar beauty and talent contests of the past, this one is outstanding. It is colourful and exciting to see
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          130 42  -  HARRY CHIAWRI+ES: I watched Singapore Idol on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. I fully agree with Dick Lee's comment that Jasmine Tye's singing showed her conceding the contest It is a shame because Jasmine has what it takes to be the Singapore Idol. However, perhaps she
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        157 42 THE Substation's application to close Armenian Street for a party on Sept 30, where some of the activities would have been held on the street, has been rejected by the police. The arts centre's original plan was to bring together a
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        303 43  -  Zul Othman DVDREVIEW byi FILM: Perhaps the biggest flaw with director Wolfgang Petersen's waterborne epic Poseidon is its insistence on focusing on the grand effects and not the story. But as scarify realistic as the recreation of Mother Nature's fury was at the cinemas, the impact of Poseidon is
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        314 43  - No Doubt Live in the Tragic Kingdom Zul Othman DVDREVIEW byi FILM: Depending on your point of view, Californian quartet No Doubt should either be feted or ridiculed for popularising ska-punk in the late 1990s and for the fact their reputation hinges on their third album, 1995 's Tragic Kingdom.
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      671 47  -  JANICE GOH An effort to speak good English can bolsteryour career in the workplace ja nice@newstoday.com.sg ATA recent press conference, I was nodding off listening to the speaker drone on. His presentation slides were well prepared; he was enthusiastic and he knew his stuff. But
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      510 48 -AFP Tendulkar's spectacular show has rivals and the media singing his praises KUALA LUMPUR Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting have paid tribute to Sachin Tendulkar's "genius", after the Indian batsman's unbeaten 141 in his first match in six months since a shoulder injury. Lara, himself one of the
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      299 48 BLOOMBERG LONDON Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting will ask recordbreaking leg-spinner Shane Warne to explain comments published in The Sun newspaper, in which he criticised team coach John Buchanan (picture). Warne, currently finishing the English county season with Hampshire, told the paper Buchanan had
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      621 49 -AFP Frustrated Moratti wants his players to start justifying their salaries SERIE A Inter Milan v Sampdoria ROME Inter Milan owner Massimo Moratti has ticked off his star-studded squad ahead of Saturday's Serie A clash at home to Sampdoria. The big-spending patron was livid after Tuesday's 1-0
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      450 49 -AFP PRIMERAUGA Racing Santander v Barcelona MADRID Barcelona opened the defence of their Champions League title by thrashing Levski Sofia 5-0 in midweek. They will be looking to cause more mayhem when they return to domestic matters on Sunday. The Catalans hope
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      1032 50  -  JOSE RAYMOND Warriors not far away from their first title since 2002 NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE SAFFC 1 Tampines 1 jose@newstoday.com.sg THREE points would have been perfect, but SAFFC coach Richard Bok had no complaints after the Warriors battled to a 1-1 draw against Tampines Rovers
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      506 51  -  CUBBYLEONG Mardan and Lam top the leaderboard, but that's no reason for them to get conservative GOLF World Cup qualifiers cubby@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing are on the brink of qualifying for their third World Golf Championships-World Cup 2006. In
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      212 51  -  CUBBYLEONG ASIAN Tour chief executive Louis Martin (picture) has stepped down, after reaching mutual agreement with the Tour's executive board. The Englishman began his stint in February 2004 and in a statement released by the Asian Tour on Friday, he said: "I have always said
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      144 51 -AFP BEIJING A report in the press here on Friday claimed City planners were proposing to expel more than one million migrant workers as part of a cleanup ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games. The planners are targeting prostitutes working in the city as well as
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      778 52 the interview WITH FORMER CHELSEA STAR CLIVE WALKER Clive Walker earned his place in Chelsea folklore on May 7,1983. On that fateful afternoon he scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers to save the Blues from relegation to the old third division. The winger
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      390 52 AP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Everton vWigan LIVERPOOL David Moyes has warned his Everton players that their stunning derby triumph over Liverpool will mean nothing if they fail to beat Wigan Athletic on Saturday. Last weekend's 3-0 win over their local rivals
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      744 53 —AGENCIES Benitez wants the points, Mourinho needs to get critics on his side ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea v Liverpool LONDON Rafael Benitez has extended an olive branch, but he will not hold his breath to see if Jose Mourinho accepts it The Liverpool manager has far bigger things on
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      370 53 -AFP LONDON Chelsea and England skipper John Terry is bracing himself for the backlash from Liverpool's derby defeat at Everton, when the Reds visit Stamford Bridge for a whopping Premiership showdown on Sunday. Liverpool had been tipped to challenge the champions this season
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