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  • 13 1 weekendTODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /A~DJJ\CORP we set you thinking July 14-15, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 635 1  -  LOHCHEEKONG rt l"x \r ft r*ti/^\ n-t I r* vv\ s^«-i n-t **i r* Banned lawyer's case thrown out cneeKong^meaia corp. com. sg A DISBARRED lawyer who tried to use former crime-buster Glenn Knight's return to the Bar to bolster his own case had his application
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    • 568 2 BLOOMBERG The new playground of the truly rich: The seabed, thanks to posh submarines that offer unbeatable privacy THE luxury-submarine business is sometimes hard to fathom. "If you can find my submarine, it's yours," says Russian oil billionaire Roman Abramovich. And that's all the reclusive
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    • 414 2  -  LEE U-WEN u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) Asia debacle will get another fresh round of hearing next week, when Parliament convenes on Monday after a two-month break. Nine MPs have tabled questions on the failed high-profile project, which caused a stir
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    • 1102 3  -  LOH CHEE KONG XTRA POLITICS AND TALENT Singapore has had just two in 42 years cheekong@mediacorp.com.sg THREE Prime Ministers, six Finance Ministers, eight Education and Defence Ministers. But the country has seen only two Law Ministers in 42 years Mr Edward Barker,
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    • 348 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI THERE are now more Muslims waiting to receive organs than members of the 490,000--strong Malay community who pledged last year to donate theirs. The number of pledges fell by 82 percent from 2005, the biggest drop in the past
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    • 574 4  -  DAPHNE CHUAH Post-70s generation wants 'more in life than just work' daphne@mediacorp.com.sg EMPLOYERS, sit up. You risk losing your best talents the V Generation if you can't cater to their demands outside of work. This is a loud and clear message sent by
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    • 329 4  -  —TANHUILENG THE centre which supplies blood to hospitals is open 24-by-7. That is the assurance from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) amid certain misconceptions that have surfaced in the wake of Madam Swee Lay Kuan's bleeding to death at Raffles Hospital where she was
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  • Singapore news
    • 1136 6  -  CLEMENT MESENAS XTRA HUMILIATION OF A MAID 'Take off your clothes', ordered agency staff, one of whom laughed at her as she stood, naked and trembling EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@mediacorp.com.sg IN WHAT must be the ultimate degradation of a human being in modern times and
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    • 1418 8  -  BOBBY NAIR XTRA THE OTHER SIDE For all his flaws, former CEO challenged conventions of how charities were run ON A busy Monday in 2004, a casually-dressed American walked into the lobby of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) building on Kirn Keat Road.
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    • 465 8  - White collar, blue collar here's the black side of health DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg IF YOU are a white-collar worker, maybe you should find out how to guard against cancer. If you are a blue-collar worker, you might just want to watch your heart and blood pressure. The report
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    • 194 10  -  -TANHUILENG YOUNG women are the target group of a new sexual health survey by the Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Singapore. It aims to find out about the sexual practices and contraception knowledge of women in the 20 to 28 age
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    • 256 10  -  —TANHUILENG FIVE people including three foreigners were nabbed for the sale and distribution of counterfeit luxury and sportswear products in an island-wide operation on Wednesday. In the raid, 8,500 counterfeit luxury and sportswear products with a street value of $300,000 were seized. The 13-hour
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    • 1407 10  -  TOR CHING LI XTRA SINGAPOREANS IN DUBAI IN DUBAI IT COULD have been a scene from a weekend at East Coast Park picnic mats spread out on the grass, a group of Singaporeans engaging in their favourite activity (eating, what else) and
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    • 274 11  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@mediacorp.com.sg SOME 7 per cent or about 166,000 eligible Singaporeans have yet to sign up for their GST credits. They have until this Sunday to do so at the ATMs. Thereafter, they have until Dec 31, 2007 to sign up
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    • 629 12  - Buzzed by an electric stroke of genius LINYANQIN Teacher wins MOE award for developing a system to control school's air cons yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg A FEW taps on his mobile phone, and physics teacher Mr Sia Lai Chai is able to save his school around $10,000 every month on its electricity bill.
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    • 428 12  -  DAPHNE CHUAH daphne® mediacorp.com.sg WHILE most teachers would go the extra mile by giving supplementary lessons for students, one chose to literally run the distance 217 km to be exact- to inspire them through sports. Next week, Mr Yong Yuen
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    • 319 12  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THE mother of Dickson Tan Yong Wen, the 20-year-old offender who was caned three times more than the prescribed sentence, spent four hours in a closed-door mediation session with representatives from the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) on Friday. When
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    • 404 13  -  CHEOWXINYI CEO of Qian Hu tells of how greed led to the firm's $400,000 loss cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg GREED almost caused fish breeder Kenny Yap to lose his business, but the experience gained also got Singapore's leading exporter of ornamental fish to where it is today. At one
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    • 592 13  - APPRAISAL WHO NEEDS IT? DR MANOJ THULASIDAS XTRA SLEEPLESS ONCE EVERY FISCAL YEAR Review of workers' performances each year may prove to be more of a stumbling block to innovation WE GO through this ordeal every year when our bosses appraise our performance. Our career progression, bonus and salary depend
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    • 376 14  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg GETTING more mileage out of one's car can mean saving money on fuel and making better use of global resources. But such concerns do not bother Singaporeans very much, according to a survey by petroleum company Shell. Of
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    • 788 14  -  DAVID GERALD JEYASEGARAM XTRA TWO-WHEEL DRIVE Cyclists must be regulated before it is too late IS A cyclist a pedestrian? The answer is obviously "no" yet, cyclists maintain that they have the right of way along pedestrian crossings. They do not walk their bicycles, but
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  • world news
    • 612 15 —AGENCIES Ex-UN Sec-Gen urges group to ditch non-interference policy on this issue KUALA LUMPUR The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should cast aside its non-interference policy when dealing with the Myanmar issue if the group wants to avoid spillover effects, former United
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 100 15 —AP Robbers in southern China have started stealing pork because rising prices have made the meat, a staple in the country, valuable, a newspaper reported on Friday. The Shenzhen Jing newspaper said a peddler was robbed of his motorcycle and load
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      • 98 15 AFP A restaurant in Leeds has begun selling the traditionally free "scraps" of left-over deep-fried batter from the national dish, fish and chips, said the Guardian newspaper on Friday. "Scraps" also known as scratchings or bits were being sold for £2 ($6.20) at Battered,
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    • 290 15 AGENCIES TOKYO A powerful typhoon lashed Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Friday, cutting power to nearly 100,000 homes, grounding hundreds of flights and injuring at least 34 people. Typhoon Man-yi, named after a strait that is now a reservoir in Hong Kong, whipped up waves
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    • 90 15 AGENCIES CHICAGO-Fall-en media tycoon Conrad Black (picture) was found guilty on Friday of three fraud charges and obstruction of justice. Jurors found him not guilty of nine charges, including racketeering. Black, 62, was formerly head of the Hollinger International newspaper empire. He and two
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    • 108 15 ■AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's main Islamic opposition party will only field candidates for the upcoming general elections who do not smoke or are willing to kick the habit, its leader said. The Pan-Malaysia Islamic (PAS) party's spiritual leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat said smoking
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    • 398 16 —AFP Pyongyang's military calls for 'security' discussions with US counterpart SEOUL North Korea called on Friday for military talks with the United States, as United Nations atomic inspectors prepared to return to Pyongyang to supervise the shutdown of its nuclear programme. But with inspectors on the eve
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      68 16 V ■■■■■■■VI I -AFP WELCOME: Footballer David Beckham and his pop star wife Victoria are greeted by a throng of fans and media on Thursday night as they arrive at Los Angeles airport. Beckham is to start his new career with the Los Angeles Galaxy team and stands to make
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    • 1147 16  -  TIFFANY TAN XTRA ATHEISM VS RELIGION tiffany@mediacorp.com.sg 'JESUS AS DEPICTED IN THE BIBLE DOES NOT EXIST. GOD DOES NOT EXIST. AND THEREFORE, I DENY THE HOLY SPIRIT. I'M GOING TO HELL, THANK YOU.' Twenty-five-year-old John Pritzlaff is among hundreds of Americans who responded to
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    • 233 17 -AGENCIES NEW DELHI India was taking the first step towards developing a national plan to tackle the effects of global warming and assess its own greenhouse gas emissions on Friday, amid mounting international pressure. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's new Council on Climate Change
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    • 447 17 -AP TOKYO -Japan's first openly gay politician launched her campaign for the upper house elections in central Tokyo. Ms Kanako Otsuji is the first openly gay candidate to run for the seat at Japanese national policy level. Surrounded by supporters holding rainbow flags, Ms Otsuji
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    • 998 18 FOR A MERE $18 MILLION —MCT MIAMI—In 1986, a Florida millionaire named Jack Holcomb (picture, right) went island shopping in the Bahamas. He valued privacy and safety over a fancy address, and the place he bought had both. Leaf Cay (picture, above) is a six hectare wilderness about 450 km
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 76 19 -AP Geert Wilders, a right-wing Dutch lawmaker, wants women jailed for wearing the head-to-toe Islamic robe known as a burqa, calling it a "symbol of oppression". Mr Wilders filed a proposal on Thursday to make wearing a burqa in public a crime
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      • 95 19 AFP Massive glaciers in northwest China's Xinjiang region have shrunk by 20 per cent and snow lines there have receded by about 60m since 1964, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said. Global warming is believed to be the culprit, with the internal temperature of
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      • 61 19 Travel Leisure magazine ranked Bangkok as the third World's Best City, based on the US publication's readers' survey for the year 2007. The top position went to Florence in Italy, which has held the No 1 position for two consecutive years. Buenos
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      44 19 SKATEBOARD RESISTANCE: A masked demonstrator joins students as they march through Manila on Friday to protest against the anti-terrorism law. The controversial law will come into force in the Philippines on Sunday. The protesters say the law is aimed at repressing government critics. AFP
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    • 334 19 A fallen man -AGENCIES Ousted PM Thaksin drops 10 places in Forbes Asia's list of wealthy Thais BANGKOK Former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra (picture) has fallen in Forbes Asia's ranking of wealthiest individuals in the country. In the latest report, he is now in 14th position with a net wealth
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      72 20 IN A LINE: Blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian detainees are brought for questioning in an army base near Kibbutz Nahal Oz on the border with the Gaza Strip after they were captured during a military operation on Thursday. An Israeli soldier was killed in clashes with Hamas militants in the latest
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    • 269 20 —AP WASHINGTON An American woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant's request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying "Bye bye, plane". Ms Kate Penland,
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    • 378 20 -AFP ISLAMABAD Thousands of Islamist protesters vented their fury at Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at mass rallies on Friday, some vowing to "destroy" him to avenge this week's deadly raid on the Red Mosque. The United States-backed military ruler fuelled Islamist anger with this week's
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    • 167 20 -AGENCIES VIENNA United Nations nuclear inspectors, banned earlier this year by Iran from visiting a heavy water reactor, will now be allowed to inspect it before the end of July, the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) said on Friday. In
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      190 20 -AGENCIES BOY, WHAT A CONTROVERSY: An enlarged cartoon of Tintin and his dog Snowy by Belgian cartoonist Herge,the pen name of Georges Remi, at a recent exhibition in Paris. The bookstore chain Borders is removing the title Tintin in the Congo from the children's section of its British stores, after
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    • 156 20 —AFP TOKYO —Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated a lantern to a controversial war shrine for a festival that opened on Friday, his latest gift to the site China and South Korea revile as a symbol of wartime imperialism. The paper lantern, priced at
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    • 758 21  -  OONYEOH Will Malaysia and its politicians take a stand on religious conversions? MENTION "strategic ambiguity"in politics and most would think of the American stance towards China and Taiwan. The United States does not support independence for the latter; yet it is also against use of force by
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    • 312 22 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too filthy to eat Candy from Denmark that is mislabelled. At a time when Chinese imports are under fire for being contaminated or defective, federal records suggest that China is
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    • 1033 22 MCT XTRA CHINA'S COMING CRUNCH How the shift to a market economy and single-child policy has skewed the Asian giant's demographics BEIJING The principal's office is now the mahjong room. Classrooms have become bedrooms equipped with bells to summon the nurses. The clamour of more
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        44 23 AFP I OPPOSITES: Mr Bao Xishun, 56, (left), who stands at 2.36 m and listed by the Guinness Worjd Records as the tallest living man, meets 19-year-old Mr He Pingping, who only measures 73cm, and is applying for the the world's shortest man record.
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      • 92 23 A suspected Hong Kong gangster has been arrested in connection with a series of attacks on buildings and shops linked to a leading property developer in the city. Police said the man was among the 17 people arrested in the past few days during a crackdown
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      • 102 23 —AFP A woman in a remote Indonesian island village cut off her boyfriend's penis in an apparent jealous rage, Indonesian police said on Friday. "The incident was based on jealousy because the victim was allegedly cheating," said a police spokesman for Timor
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      • 99 23 -AFP Prices of Transformers toys in China have soared amid hype over the Hollywood blockbuster's debut here, with the movie also smashing box-office records across the country. The price for a well-preserved Fortress Maximus toy made in 1987 and on sale at a shop in
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    • 266 26 -AGENCIES WASHINGTON Al Qaeda is stepping up its efforts to sneak terror operatives into the United States and has acquired most of the capabilities it needs to strike, according to a draft US intelligence assessment Among the key
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    • BUSH BUYS TIME, BROWN SEEKS CHANGE, BLAIR ADMITS CONFUSION
      • 242 26 AGENCIES LONDON —The first clear signs that Prime Minister Gordon Brown (picture) will reorder Britain's foreign policy emerged when one of his closest Cabinet allies urged the United States to change its priorities and said a country's strength should no longer be measured by its
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      • 725 26 AFP Bush buys time, Brown seeks change and Blair admits confusion WASHINGTON The United States House of Representatives has voted in favour of pulling most combat troops out of Iraq by April next year. The new legislation calls for the Pentagon to begin withdrawing combat troops within
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      • 172 26 —AFP LONDON Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (picture) joked of his struggle to adapt to life after office on Thursday at a Labour Party fundraiser at London's Wembley Stadium. Mr Blair, who led Britain for a decade before leaving office on June 27,
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  • Voices
    • 794 27  -  DOWN UNDER I WITH NEIL HUMPHREYS news@newstoday.com.sg THERE is something undeniably excruciating about celebrities telling us how to live our lives. They step off their private jets, berate a lackey for not serving the mineral water at room temperature and then ***** because there's too
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    • 80 27 In Hong Kong, the taxis queue for customers. In Singapore, it is the other way round. American tourist Megan Jackson, one of 100 visitors polled by Today recently on what they thought of Singapore's taxi situation. I have told Indra this is the chance of a lifetime. If he
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    • 157 28  -  MARYANNE MAES Letter from I REFER to the report, "Tree's end is near" (July 12). While I admire the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) initial fight to retain the 80-year-old tree along Braddell Road (picture), it now seems that it has given up because of
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    • 187 28  -  PATRICIACHENMETCALFE Letter from I AM a Bishan resident who is against the planned destruction of the beautiful Angsana tree along Braddell Road. My father drives along Braddell Road daily and has no com- plaints about the speed limit there. Why is the
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    • 767 28  -  JOSEPH EDWARDS XTRA REFLECTIONS IT IS a phrase that most of us especially punters and passionate fans are familiar with: It's the outcome in the second half that matters. However, I am musing over something that stretches beyond
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    • 494 29  -  YANG JIE JESSICA Letter from I READ with interest the article written by Mr Zafar Anjum, "It's Oh So Quiet, I Must Be in Singapore" (July 7-8). The writer states that Singaporeans seem to be losing the ability to talk and gossip. I wish
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    • 184 29 GLOBAL SHOOT A PHOTO ESSAY BY SHA YING PHOTOGRAPHER Sha Ying has always been fascinated by the concept of travel and how people react to new places. His series of pictures, simply titled Travel, documents tourists Mr Ying has photographed in Singapore. Work on this
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  • Business
    • 410 30  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN Some irate shareholders storm out of CX Tang's AGM hedirman@media corp.com.sg SOME minority shareholders at local retailer CX Tang's annual general meeting on Friday voted with their feet After two hours, about 15 shareholders walked out to show their unhappiness over the company's
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    • 855 30  -  ANDYMUKHERJEE THE one financial product that Indian investors badly need and continue to be denied is a real-estate investment trust, or Reit Venture-capital property funds, which are permitted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, ask for a minimum amount of
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    • 202 31  -  DARYLLOO darylloo@mediacorp.com.sg THE China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Company (CSSD) is planning for a listing by 2009, either in Singapore or China. This was revealed on Friday by Suzhou Mayor Van Li, who is also chairman of the board of CSSD, the main developer and
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    • 173 31  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg CITIBANK'S ambitious plans to extend its presence in Singapore's heartlands have borne fruit just after six months. After forging a partnership with transport provider SMRT Corporation Ltd half a year ago, Citibank now boasts 100 more customer "touchpoints" branches, ATMs and AXS payment
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    • 748 31  -  CHARLES TAN XTRA 10 TIPS ASK anyone who has ever bought a lottery ticket what he would do if he won, and the reply will invariably be: "Quit my job." This leads me to believe that many of us seek fortune not because we
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      • 300 32 BLOOMBERG Slump in car buys slows growth rate SINGAPORE'S retail sales increased in May at less than half the pace expected by economists, as car purchases slumped after vehicle permits became more expensive. The retail sales index rose 1.5 per cent from a year earlier, after gaining
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      • 141 32  - Publishing pays well JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@mediacorp.com.sg AMONG information and communications services companies, publishers paid the highest salaries at least in 2005, said the latest survey by the Singapore Department of Statistics, issued on Friday. Those employed in the publishing sector received an average annual remuneration of $70,700, higher than the
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      • 506 32 'Hot money' argument ideological humbug? While Chris Giles' analysis, "Wrong lessons from Asia's crisis" (July 2), provided proximate causes and lessons from the Asian financial crisis that occurred 10 years ago, it did not address the roots of (as well as fundamental lessons from) the crisis. Just as the Great
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      • 302 33 BLOOMBERG UEM, China Harbour to build 23km second linkto Penang UEM group and China Harbour Engineering Co, a unit of the country's biggest port builder, plan to build South-east Asia's longest bridge on Malaysia's west coast after the Chinese government agreed
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      • 369 33 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE'S stocks rose, driving the Straits Times Index (STI) to a record and its best weekly gain in three months. DBS Group Holdings led banks higher on speculation that the Republic's economic growth would boost lending. SembCorp Marine
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      • 116 34 Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's biggest power producer, more than doubled its third-quarter profit as a stronger ringgit lowered its foreign-currency debt payments. Net income rose to RM$l.O9 billion ($479 million), or 25.02 sen a share, in the three months ended May 31, from RM5395.4 million, or 9.58 sen, a
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      • 916 34  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA STRAPPED FOR LOANS Those banking on term loans to purchase new properties could be sorely disappointed FOR those who need a new place to live after their properties have been sold en bloc, there are three options available. First,
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      • 366 34 CHANNEL NEWSASIA THE big-three local banks DBS, OCBC and UOB have seen an erosion in their market share since the introduction of foreign competition in 1999. According to Moody's Investors Service, their market share in loans and deposits has dropped from 75 per cent
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      1096 37  -  DERRYN WONG COLIN YONG DRIVING YOU MAD So you've passed your driving test. Are you really equipped to hit the road? news@newstoday.com.sg THERE'S been a lot of talk lately about poor driving standards in Singapore and last year's road accident figures certainly make for grim reading. Figures obtained
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        947 38 How much are you willing to pay to improve your complexion? Some salons are betting that it's more than $300 for a facial SINCE Sccube the Apothecary introduced its Youth Recruit Facial in May, more than 10 people have tried the treatment. The number may not be impressive
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      • 277 39 For those who love the idea of experiencing a facial with their favourite skincare products, here are some of the beauty brands that offer facial treatments here. CLARINS: TV star Andrea De Cruz is said to head for Clarins' Pro Whitening HP Facial available at Institut
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      • 1127 40  -  I/ALCHUA -LYNETTEKOH ■LYNETTEKOH BEST FACE FORWARD TODAY tries three facials that will set you back $350 or more IV v\ Xi c; li tc a ai MY $888 FACIAL WHEN I was offered an $888 facial, images of two therapists working simultaneously on
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      • 509 40  -  PEARLYNTHAM L'Oreal Professionnel New Vitamino Color Gel-Masque ($36) If you colour your hair, this one's ideal for prolonging colour and shine. This treatment mask also keeps your hair smooth, soft and tanglefree and can be used once or twice a week. Our tester liked
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      • 240 41 Deodorant uses anti-fungal properties of Asian herb UNDERARMS and torn yam soup now have something in common that love-it-or-hate-it Asian herb known as lemongrass. But before you conjure up strange ideas of spicing up your personal grooming routine, read on. Nivea's new Deodorant Energy
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    • weekendmakan
      • 716 42  -  EVELINE GAN Several celebrity chefs are takinq heartlanders on A Journey Through Gastronomy, and who knows, they might reveal a few yummy tricks PHOTOGRAPHY DIGITAL IMAGING JASON HO DON'T be surprised if you see strapping, per-oxide-blonde Emmanuel Stroobant in Jurong West two weeks from now. The Belgium-born owner-chef
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        272 43 1: MILIND SOVANI CHEFMILIND.COM What's cooking: Regional Indian When: Aug 25, 2pm to spm Where: Tanjong Pagar CC (To register, call 6221 9898] 2: JUSTIN TIONG NOGAWA RESTAURANT What's cooking: Japanese When and where: Oct 6, 2pm to spm, at Ulu Pandan CC (Tel: 6463 7333); Oct 27,
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      • 285 44 PRATA eateries have been increasingly inventive with the food on the menu. But did you know that for every wacky prata creation, there is also an innovative drink out there? SERENE HUANG (serene@mediacorp.com.sg) sips some of the best. SALTED LASSI (Casuarina Curry Restaurant, 126 Casuarina Rd)
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        392 45  -  SERENE HUANG FUSION FOOD Flavours of East and West are well paired at Perle Noire serene@mediacorp.com.sg AT PERLE Noire, chef Jonathan Tan's Asian sensibility is used to good effect in a Western kitchen. For example, the soupe a champignons fraiche ($7.95) is a cream of mushroom cooked with
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        • 182 45  -  MANY of us eat rice every day, but how much do we know about the grain? This month, head to Hougang Mall to learn about the different types of rice grown all around the world, and sample the rice dishes whipped up by tenants
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        • 145 45  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Japanese-style restaurant chain Yoshinoya has added more meat to its menu with two new beef-bowl choices. Diners can now opt for the Rutan Beef and Yakiniku Beef bowls, in addition to Yoshinoya's signature gyudon offerings the Classic Beef, Spicy Beef and Kimchi Beef bowls.
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      • 990 46  -  ZAFAR ANJUM XTRA SONG AND DANCE RECENTLY, Outlook, one of India's top news weeklies, did a cover story on how South India has stolen a march over the North by almost all indicators of development in the past 60 years. The only territory (so to
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      • 427 47 -AFP THEIR feel-good, night club dance anthems like Get Down On It, Ladies Night, and Celebration made them superstars. Now, 10 years after Kool The Gang's last album the band has released a new album, entitled Still Kool. Although many of the tracks on
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        464 48 WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND How about adding a touch of history with a blast from the past in more ways than one? BARRACKS TO THE FUTURE It's a mix of old and new at the revamped Dempsey Hill in Tanglin Village. The sprawling 100,000-sq-foot area that was
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        494 49 MICA (P) 273/06/2007 YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS (JULY 14-20) UNDERNEATH THE NORTH STAR Join The Philharmonic Chamber Choir in its exploration of Scandinavian a cappella choral music from the land of Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius.Works to be performed include Fire Salmer (Four Psalms) and Rakastava.
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    • weekendsports
      • 203 50  -  -DARREN LAI NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Korean Super Reds 0 SAFFC 1 DEFENDING champions SAFFC were made to work hard for their first victory at the Jalan Besar Stadium this year, as they battled to a 1-0 win over the new-look Korean Super Reds which featured four new
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      • 472 50  -  TRI-NATIONS RUGBY -AFP New Zealand v South Africa CHRISTCHURCH In the history of two of rugby's fiercest rivals the All Blacks and Springboks it is hard to think of a Test that means so little as Saturday's Tri-Nations encounter. Instead the championship, the
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      • 470 50  -  DARREN LAI After delay with paperwork, Liaoning finally ready to unleash new signings NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Liaoning Guangyuan v Geylang Queenstown Stadium, Saturday, 7.45pm darren@mediacorp.com.sg THOSE who turned up at the Queenstown Stadium on Monday for Liaoning Guangyuan's match against SAFFC to check out the club's
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      • 430 51  -  TAN YO-HINN Singapore teen hunting for gold at World Youth Championships yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg STEFAN Tseng is one leap away from history. On Saturday, the 17-year-old Singapore Sports School student will be battling for a first-ever gold for Singapore in the triple jump at the sth lAAF World
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      • 480 51  -  TAN YO-HINN HE MISSED out on the prestigious Project 0812, the $7 million battleplan to help elite Singapore athletes win medals at either the 2008 or 2012 Olympics. But on Tuesday, commando On Shaw Ming (picture) leaves on an all expenses paid five-month
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      • 479 52  -  CUBBY LEONG Special Olympics chief says their athletes simply have different abilities cubby@mediacorp.com.sg IT COULD be the most significant step forward in sport this Sunday, when double amputee Oscar Pistorius goes up against Jeremy Warmer at the Norwich Union British Grand Prix. In what will
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      • 415 53  -  —THE GUARDIAN Propelled by 'Cheetahs', Pistorius will take on the Olympic champ with the track world watching LONDON Oscar Pistorius asks if we can spare a moment so that he can retrieve from the back of the room one of the two most controversial limbs in
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      • 1100 54  -  RAJIV NAIR RIPE FOR THE PICKING Yorkshire clubs have fallen on hard times, but their investment potential is not in doubt sports@newstoday.com.sg WITH Don Revie pulling the strings Leeds United were one of the most feared club sides in the world in the early *****,
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      • 666 55  -  KENNETH GOH EYE ON THE BALL IT WAS called the Goal Rush, an extraordinary time in Liverpool's history. Five English league crowns, three FA Cups, five League cups and one European Cup were mined between 1980-87 and '88-96, when Liverpool's greatest goalscoring machine lan Rush prowled the
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      • 182 55 -AFP SAO PAULO Brazil have issued a warrant for the arrest of Kia Joorabchian (picture), the agent of Argentine footballer Carlos Tevez and the former head of Brazilian club Corinthians, on suspicion of money laundering, judicial sources said on Friday. The charges also relate
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      • 680 56 AGENCIES DOCTOR, DOCTOR Out of prison, the man at the centre of America's worst steroids scandal is still boosting athletes SAN JOSE, California "Come look inside," Victor Conte Jr urges, while gesturing toward his new silver Bentley Continental shimmering in the springtime sun. When the
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      • 734 57 BATTLE OF THE SEXES Women's golf revolution in the country kicked off with Pak's US Open triumph, so far Choi's on a lonely road ORLANDO The revolution began in Kohler, Wisconsin, best anyone can remember, late one summer night some eight years ago. It
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      • 412 58  - I once was blind, but now I see I DAVID NGIAU OFFSIDE I'VE never been a believer in the grand unifying theory of football that is kelong. You know, the premise that nothing happens without a reason, that everything is preordained by your maker. As in: Your bookmaker, or bookie.
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      • 583 58 ■AFP SIZZLING HOT I While confident, star striker Bambang warns Saudis will be a huge test ASIAN CUP, GRP D Indonesia v Saudi Arabia Saturday, 8.35pm JAKARTA He is the golden boy of Indonesian football, a powerful striker with pace and an eye for goal. Bambang Pamungkas also
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      • THE SMART MONEYS ON ...
        • 418 59 UZBEKS NEED TO WIN IT'S simply a question of when the Malaysians will concede, given how bad they were against China. Destined to be the whipping boys of this tournament, the co-hosts' only hope is that the Uzbeks will ease off after taking the lead. Uzbekistan will
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        • 424 59 INDONESIA WILL BE FOUND OUT DARE we under-esti-mate the underdogs now? In a topsy-turvy tournament so far, Thailand and Indonesia have created huge upsets. Indonesian star striker Bambang Pamungkas stole the show against Bahrain but against the Saudis, he won't have it as easy. For one,
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          423 59 CHINA TO JUST EDGE IT BOTH sides won their first games, but under very different circumstances. China romped to a 5-1 win over co-hosts Malaysia, while Iran had to come from behind to beat the Uzbeks 2-1. No prizes for guessing who had the tougher opponents. The
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        547 60 -AFP THAT LOSING FEELING Pre-tournament favourites Australia face elimination after defeat at the hands of Iraq ASIAN CUP, GROUP A Iraq 3 Australia 1 BANGKOK Australia, who were fancied to win the Asian Cup on their debut, face a stunning early elimination from the tournament after a shock
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      • 253 60 HANOl—Frankfurt forward Naohiro Takahara (picture) struck twice as Japan bundled the United Arab Emirates out of Asian Cup contention on Friday with a 3-1 win. Japan surged to the top of Group B and are level on points with co-hosts Vietnam. The
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      • 558 61 AGENCIES Under fire all through the tournament, a loss to a rampant Argentina could cost Dunga his job COPA AMERICA FINAL Argentina v Brazil, Monday, 5.05 am MARACAIBO, Venezuala Argentina are out to end their 14-year Copa America drought when they meet rivals Brazil in
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      • 478 61  -  TAN YO-HINN SPEAKER'S CORNER ANY showdown between Argentina and Brazil boasts the makings of a classic The Copa America final is no exception. More than just a clash between two of the world's footballing giants, it's a derby between bitter, bitter rivals. The enmity between
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      • 1248 62  -  IBTOWXT.iniT.IWI EYEBALL TO EYEBALL It has been a long 12 months, now Riquelme and Robinho are on the brink of deliverance COPA AMERICA FINAL Argentina v Brazil, Monday, 5.05 am )NE STARTED with the beautiful game, he held the baton as the men around him danced,
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