Today, 27 July 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 50 1 SPAIN'S f CONTADOR f*% PUTS ON i*^. YELLOW JERSEY, MAYWIN COURTING TROUBLE IN MALAYSIA LINES BETWEEN SECULAR, RELIGIOUS RULES VAGUE: JUDGE HOT NEWS-PAGE 2 WHO HAS THE BETTER POKER FACE? HUMANS BEAT COMPUTER IN DUEL TECH-PAGE 52 THE WAR'S NOT OVER BUT HOLLYWOOD'S CHURNING OUT MOVIES ON IRAQ PLUS-PAGE 58
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 656 1 NEW YORK US shares plunged yesterday in one of the worst sell-offs this year, as investors gripped by housing market and "credit crunch" fears ran for cover. A late comeback helped Wall Street avert its worst session of the year
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    • 1059 1  -  Religious leaders propose that Muslims come under opt-out organ harvesting scheme LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg THE list of Muslim patients needing a new organ just keeps growing. And the dismal response from Muslims pledging to donate their organs has prompted Islamic religious leaders
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    • 462 1 SINGAPORE is a convenient punching bag for Indonesian law-makers that is why they have been making loud protests over the defence treaty signed between the two countries recently. That was the view of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew when asked to comment
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA; EPA  -  462 words

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  • hot news
    • 487 2 Secular or religious courts? Lawmakers should decide KUALA LUMPUR For the sake of preserving peace among the various ethnic groups at the time of independence in 1957, the Malaysian Constitution left certain provisions relating to Islam and other religions vague. Now, those
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    • 266 2 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Airlines' (MAS) unions have opposed the early opening of the lucrative Kuala Lumpur-Singa-pore route to budget carrier Air Asia, warning it would dent the country's aim of becoming a regional aviation hub. The eight unions and
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    • 450 3  -  ANSLEYNG With metal prices rising, even prayer urns go missing ansley@mediacorp.com.sg THEY have been stealing copper lightning conductor rods, guard railings along roads, prayer urns and even toilet fixtures. With more metal thieves on the prowl amid soaring scrap metal prices, the
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    • 607 4  -  SHERALYN TAY But should patient anonymity also be extended to more clinics? sheralyn@media corp.com.sg IT WILL soon be more convenient to get tested for HIV because rapid-test kits are likely to be available at more clinics. The Ministry of Health (MOH) told Today it
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  • Singapore news
    • 742 6  -  ANSLEYNG 19-year-old missing for a month, mystery as SMS junkie goes silent ansley@mediacorp.com.sg A STREET-WISE young woman, Ms Felicia Teo Wei Ling was always in touch with friends day and night, whether over the phone or on the Internet So, when the 19-year-old art student suddenly
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 87 6 The Immigration Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has completed its system upgrade and data migration, and all services will resume as scheduled this morning. As the ICA was not able to process applications during the period of suspension, processing time for
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      • 102 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A new business guide has been launched to give start-ups a leg up in setting up and running a business here. The guide contains both regulatory and business information, from tax issues and financing options, to drafting business plans. It was launched by Minister
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      • 172 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Major supermarkets have been slashing chicken prices since February, with the price war heating up especially in the past one to two months. The huge slash in prices has hurt stallholders at wet markets, where a whole chicken, weighing Ikg to I.3kg, sells for
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      • 65 6 938 LIVE The Films Appeal Committee has a new chairperson. Mrs Mildred Tan is also the managing director of Ernst Young Associates. She also holds key appointments in the National Council on Problem Gambling and the Singapore Cancer Society, among others. Mrs Tan takes over
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      • 73 6 Singaporean Rina Sophian Abdul Samad was jailed a year, fined RM5,000 ($2,200) and had his licence suspended for two years by Kulai's Magistrate's Court for illegal racing on the Second Link highway on July 4. Rina, 29, was charged with five other Singaporeans and a
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    • 275 8  -  LEONGWEEKEAT NEW preventive measures are being taken by the National Parks Board (NParks) following the deaths of two people who were killed by a falling tree and a falling branch in May, a coroner's inquiry was told yesterday. State Coroner Ronald Gwee, who
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    • 623 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Rasif associate admits to property scam involving inflation of sale prices weekeat@media corp.com.sg HE CONSPIRED with missing lawyer David Rasif to overstate flat valuations in clients' applications for bank loans, thereby convincing banks and the CPF Board into providing higher loan amounts. In
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    • 391 10  -  DAPHNE CHUAH Their improper use linked to 28% of workplace deaths daphne@mediacorp.com.sg LIFTING equipment are rapidly becoming the bane of workplace safety here, accounting for seven deaths or 28 per cent of all workplace fatalities in the first half of this year a sharp increase from last year's
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    • 340 10 If you're planning to drive on these roads ROADS leading to the Marina Bay area and stretches of the East Coast Parkway (ECP) will be closed to motorists for tomorrow's Preview and the National Day Parade (NDP). Republic Boulevard, Raffles Avenue, Temasek Avenue and Esplanade Drive will be closed between
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    • 745 12  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg IT WAS the first polytechnic to bring in a niche degree programme from overseas, and now it is in the midst of introducing at least one more next year. Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) plans to offer a
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  • world news
    • 464 14 -AFP Nine detained and charged with inciting violence, says deputy police chief BANGKOK Nine anti-coup protest leaders were detained yesterday over clashes with police that left more than 100 injured last weekend, as the government threatened a state of emergency if more violence erupts.
      -AFP; AFF  -  464 words
    • 269 14 Not all who convert are condemned -AFP CAIRO Egypt's top religious adviser, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, reaffirmed his belief yesterday that Muslims could choose their own religion after the local press carried apparently conflicting statements. Mr Gomaa maintained that while it would be a "grave sin" for Muslims to commit
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    • 357 14 A tragic ending on his 42nd birthday AGENCIES SEOUL When Bae Hyung-kyu was a young student, he saved a friend from attempting suicide. The incident made an impact on his life, and from then, he decided to embark on a life-long journey doing missionary and charity work. But on Wednesday,
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    • 213 14 AFP A South Korean hostage held by Taliban militants with 21 fellow aid workers begged for help in an interview with CBS News, the network reported on its website yesterday. The report came as the militants extended the deadline to negotiate
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    • 391 17 -AP PANMUNJOM North Korea stormed out of military talks yesterday with South Korea, mocking the other side and ending three days of high-level negotiations with no agreement because of a lingering dispute over their sea border. "We've come to
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    • 288 17 -AFP MANILA Asia's only regional security forum will next week welcome North Korea's promise to shut down all its nuclear facilities, according to a draft statement yesterday. Ministers at the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) believe "that the denuclearisation of the
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    • 418 18 -AP DAMASCUS An explosion went off at an ammunition depot inside a military complex outside the Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday, killing at least 15 soldiers and wounding 50 others, the state news agency said. The Sana news agency said the blast was caused when
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    • STORMWARNING
      • 126 19 -AFP There were increasing fears on Thursday for the health of the people affected by Britain's worst floods in living memory, as thousands were left without fresh water. One health expert recommended that children not wade in the water. Meteorologists said the three months from May
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      • 52 19 ■AFP Hundreds of rescue personnel have been deployed to help repair almost 200 storm-damaged homes in Brunei's historic Water Village, an official said yesterday. The Water Village -large houses on stilts are a key tourism attraction for Brunei. They were damaged on Monday night when high
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      • 82 19 AGENCIES Summer floods have claimed over 500 lives in China. A tornado raged through 33 villages in the eastern province of Anhui on Wednesday. The villages were among the worst hit in weeks of serious flooding along the Huai River, which has displaced hundreds of thousands
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    • 264 19 -AFP Torrential rains hamper recovery efforts PALU (Indonesia) Floods on Sulawesi have spread to three provinces and left 82 people dead, as torrential rains hindered recovery efforts. Floods and landslides first hit Central Sulawesi province on Sunday, leaving 22 dead and 47 missing, presumed buried under
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    • 197 19 AFP JAKARTA A 6.6-magnitude quake rocked northeast Indonesia yesterday, sparking fears of a tsunami. The earthquake, centred 57km under the seabed some 234 km northwest of Ternate, struck at 1.40 pm, prompting the authorities to issue a tsunami warning. This was withdrawn about 30 minutes later.
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    • 236 24 -AGENCIES BEIJING China has set up a team of top officials to steer efforts at repairing the stained reputation of the country's food and products at home and abroad, state media announced yesterday. The "leading small group on product quality and food safety"
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    • 586 24 -AP Medical problems after cosmetic jab lead woman to file lawsuit in China BEIJING Ms Liv Chang no longer has full use of her left hand, and the headaches get more piercing each year. But the egg-sized lump in her cheek is the sharpest
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    • 355 24 —AP It all started as a bit of a lark. Mr Wang Hai (picture), China's leading consumer advocate, was barely in his 20s when he stumbled across a little-known clause in the country's Consumer Rights Protection Law, which said retailers selling fake goods
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    • 325 25 -AFP SHANGHAI Seven people have died in recent years after receiving unapproved German-made artificial hearts at a Chinese hospital, state press reported yesterday. The Shanghai Eastern Hospital conducted at least nine artificial heart transplants between 2001 and 2005,
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    • 471 26 -AFP Reacts to Glasgow bomb with tough measures LONDON British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for the tightening of checks on all foreign visitors and holding terror suspects for up to 56 days without charge as part of his first anti-terrorism proposals. But Mr Brown was
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    • GLOBALROUNDUP
      • 82 26 -AFP Israel recently allowed a shipment of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank. The largest arms transfer authorised by Israel to security forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank, it is meant to
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      • 92 26 -AFP East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta yesterday asked visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard to keep Australian peacekeepers in his country until the end of 2008. East Timor has just started reorganising its police and defence force "so it will be
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      • 86 26 -AFP South Korean police said yesterday they are questioning 13 private institute teachers and examining the academic qualifications of thousands of others, in a crackdown on forged degrees. The move came after a director of South Korea's largest contemporary art festival was
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    • 228 28 -AP WASHINGTON If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, according to a new study, which suggests obesity is "socially contagious" and can spread easily from person to person. The study, published in yesterday's New England Journal
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    • 481 28 MCT Two blasts kill 50 in the midst of soccer celebrations BAGHDAD Street celebrations following the Iraqi national soccer team's Asia Cup semifinals victory turned into a tragedy when two suicide car bombs exploded amid throngs of revellers, killing 50 and injuring more than 130
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    • THE KID'S WORLD
      • 318 30  -  LAMJICKSERN Letter from I AGREE that innocent children should be out and about having more fun then being bogged down with stress and expectations. My wife and I have a two-year-old toddler, and we have already had "wellmeaning" acquaintances recommending to us
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      • 507 30  -  DAVID WONG BINGXIONG Letter from WHILE it is known that the education system here is similar to that of a pressure cooker, it is not completely bad if parents and children themselves have the right approach to handling stressful situations such as
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    • 74 32 LOOK OUT ABOVE: Today photographer Ooi Boon Keong was at Cavenagh Road recently when he spotted many passers-by strolling nonchalantly past this sign on a fence. The danger? Falling durians perched precariously on several trees just above them. CALLING ALL SHUTTERBUGS: Email us an interesting picture you have taken
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    • 280 32  -  PHILUPANGKENGHONG MOE should do something about schoolbag complaints Letter from I APPRECIATE the concern shown by Ms Trisha Fine, a foreign English teacher, in highlighting that schoolbags are just too heavy for children ("Teacher: Shocked by the burden they have to bear", July 26). Although this issue
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    • 185 32  -  MAKWAI KEONG Letter from ON THE morning of July 20,1 was in my car at the traffic light junction on the road leading to the National University Hospital. An ambulance with its red lights flashing was waiting at the opposite end to
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    • 219 34  -  DR JAMES DOBSON "by...... MINNESOTA TWIN STUDIES Some absolutely fascinating studies of identical twins raised apart had been going on for many years at the University of Minnesota. More than 100 pairs were identified, who were separated near the time of birth for a variety of
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    • 727 34  -  Tabitha Wan a Howl got sucked into an addiction IN THE last financial year, Singapore's 1,900 slot machines took in $673 million. That's more than one-and-a-half times the number of $1 coins in circulation last year. Staggering? Yes. Shocking? No. Not for me at least because I
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    • 307 36  -  NGWANPEI Letter from LAST weekend, I read of how a secondary school created the record for the world's longest chain of balloon-hat wearers (picture). My sister studies at one of the schools that took part in the event I am sure it was a
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    • 362 36  -  TRINAFOO Slow bus arrivals create havoc atJurong EastMRT Letter from' I WISH to highlight the human congestion at the Jurong East MRT station pick-up point My office is at the International Business Park (IBP) in Jurong and I take the feeder bus
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    • 348 41  -  ABDUL SHARIFFABOOKASSIM Parents may not realise how much they harm their children by smoking Letter from RECENTLY, I saw a toddler playing beside his parents. His father was smoking, and the cigarette accidentally burnt the child's cheek, barely missing his left eye. Shocking as
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    • 231 41  -  NG LEONG KENG Letter from Deputy Director (Policy Planning) For Director (Properties Land) Housing Development Board I REFER to the letter, "Bitter pill for 500 patients when GP loses clinic" (July 19) by Ms Vicky Chong Cheng Yee. Blocks 30 to 39 Dover Road were
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    • 171 41  -  PETER L 0 Letter from I REFER to the letter by the Housing Development Board (HDB), "Call our hotline and we'll send our staff to check" (July 20), in response to a reader who wondered how residents can help check illegal parking now
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    • 462 42  -  JOHNSONCHOO Group on trackto beat 2006 net profits johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg KEPPEL Corporation is on track to breaking the record earnings it achieved last year. At half time this year, the Sin-gapore-based engineering company with core businesses in offshore marine, real estate, and infrastructure returned
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    • 178 44  - MOVING FROM HERE? HEAD FOR THE NEW CBD -CHEOWXINYI Alexandra is becoming the new alternative to the Central Business District as prime office rents continue to escalate, said property consultancy Cushman Wakefield yesterday. According to their latest report, more banks have shifted some of their back room operations to Alexandra
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    • 195 44 -AFP ECONOMIC growth in emerging East Asia was stronger than expected in the first half this year but soaring capital inflows have become a big concern, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. Strong consumption and external demand have led
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    • 341 44 Manufacturing figure down 9.4% from May SINGAPORE'S manufacturing declined more than expected in June as the electronics sector remained soft and weak drug output delivered an extra blow. Manufacturing output went down by 9.4 per cent when compared to that in May in seasonally adjusted
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    • 230 46  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg EXPRESSIONS International is getting ready for a boom in the spa business. Expecting the integrated resorts to boost the spa industry to $500 million a year from $150 million now, it is expanding with a tie-up with the Chinese Swimming Club
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    • 190 46  -  -CHEOWXINYI Shin Satellite, Thailand's sole private satellite operator, sold nearly half of Shenington Investments to Temasek Holdings unit Asia Mobile Holdings for US$2OO million ($303 million). Shin Satellite plans to use part of the proceeds to retire long-term loans ahead of schedule, which will help reduce its debt to
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      25 46 ASCENDAS INDIATRUST NEW LISTING: Drawing retail investors keen to participate in India's economic boom is the Ascendas India Trust IPO retail booth at Raffles Place.
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    • 185 46  -  JOSEPH YADAO FOLLOWING feedback, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will extend the lease period for the transitional office site on Scotts Road to 15 years. It said interested investors wanted a longer lease period to enable them to recoup their investments and cater
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    • 218 50 TO HELP small businesses, Sing Net is offering two faster broadband speeds with a new integrated broadband and desktop security plan for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The wholly-owned subsidiary of Sing Tel said the one-stop solution, called "Secured Office", packages broadband offerings
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    • 333 50 BLOOMBERG MAS focus on rising property prices hits shares in Spore SINGAPORE'S stocks fell, led by real estate and banking shares after the central bank warned it was studying the impact of rising property prices. Capita Land Ltd, the nation's largest developer, and DBS Group Holdings Ltd, the
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      • 722 52  -  JOHN MARKOFF -NEWYORKTIMES AFP Two poker pros beat computer program to snag $76,000 in first man-machine duel FOR anyone stuck on a casino stool, playing hours of video poker, you can rest assured that humans can still beat a computer. But computers may
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      • 222 54 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Baidu.com, the operator of China's most popular Internet search site, said second-quar-ter profit more than doubled after clients, including Motorola, bought more advertising. The stock gained 19 per cent in that period. Baidu expanded its share
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        495 54  -  TREVOR TAN BEIJING Panasonic unveils 3 new Lumix digicams amid industry buzz IN.... trevor@media corp.com.sg THE Panasonic Lumix series is slowly making waves in the compact digital camera realm, judging from the buzz I have been hearing about it from my peers. And building on the buzz, Panasonic
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      • 576 56  -  sjgMgra7^|2« TREVOR TAN Picture super macro mode, auto-focus group shots and a bright rotating display trevor@media corp.com.sg FANCY a digital camera that is light and compact, yet packed with all the features you need on the road or on vacation? Well, the Canon
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    • 1342 58  -  NGIAMYING LAN The war in Iraq is still continuing, but Hollywood is wasting no time in churning out an onslaught of films that zero in on touchy issues LOS ANGELES One night four years ago, five soldiers back from three months in Iraq went drinking at a
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    • 354 60 -AP Puppet master Jim Henson gets his own definitive showcase KERMIT the Frog and Miss Piggy are coming to Atlanta. The Center for Puppetry Arts there is set to be the definitive Jim Henson museum with everything from original puppets to sketches from his personal collection, centre officials
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    • 713 62  -  MAYO MARTIN Aussie comics on being taunted, duck'hairs' and having illegitimate children mayo@media corp.com.sg WATCHING David Williams and Harley Breen ham it up during an interview, it's not hard to conclude that comedians don't really need a stage. Anyone with a pair of ears would do nicely and
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    • 419 63  -  JEANINETAN jeanine@media corp.com.sg DIRECTOR Scan Ellis didn't have to think very hard to come up with the inspiration to Cashback, the quirky British indie that started out as a shortfilm but was so widely acclaimed that Ellis made it into a feature film. You could say inspiration found
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    • 318 63  -  FELIX CHEONG plus@newstoday.com.sg MONEYS too tight to mention, so sang British soul outfit Simply Red in one of their hits. It's a refrain that organisers of the sth Bangkok International Film Festival, which ends on Sunday, are learning to sing. The four-year-old festival had its
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    • 237 64 -AFP DISNEY says it will ban cigarettes in its family films and discourage depictions of people smoking in other movies. The Walt Disney Company made the unprecedented pledge in a letter to a United States lawmaker, Representative Edward Markey, who recently held
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    • 306 64 BRITAIN'S Guardian newspaper caught up with synth-pop duo Erasure's Andy Bell on his ordeal with HIV and learning to dance again after his double hipreplacement Here are some excerpts from the interview. You're back with a new album Light At The End Of The World but
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    • 621 66  -  MAYO MARTIN Three new BBC channels are set to invade your gogglebox come Sunday mayo@media corp.com.sg BIG-bearded bikers in search of a good meal, hot-looking models sharing tips on how to look great, and the Teletubbies are set to invade your TV screens. If you've got mio,
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      • 277 67  -  -ZULOTHMAN IT'S not often you hear of a band namingthemselvesaftera nastyacquaintance, but Adam Tung-Aung, lead singer and guitarist of Ivy's Vendetta, said histwo-year-old pop rock outfit was named "after a vengeful little girl we know". The 25-year-old magazine editor declined to reveal details but
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      • 429 67  -  FRI DAY WITH FELIX CHEONG plus@newstoday.com.sg ADAPTING classic films or literary works for the teen market is a goldmine for Hollywood. For proof, look no further than Disturbia, opening next Thursday. Starring Shia Laßeouf- he's in Transformers and the voice behind the wave-conquering penguin in Surfs Up
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      • 196 68 —AP WHEN Matt Damon (picture) and pal Ben Affleck were struggling actors, they lived in a modest apartment near Hollywood Boulevard. Damon said he used to look at the stars on the boulevard sidewalk and dreamed of seeing his name on one of them someday.
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      • 489 68  -  ZULOTHMAN Fourteen years on, local indie golden boys are still at it zul@media corp.com.sg FORCE Vomit front man Eddino Abdul Hadi remembers precisely when he wanted to be a rock star. It was in 1987 when the then 10-year -old from New Town Primary School
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    • 405 70 -AFP International Cycling Union refuse to take part in meeting and call the process a 'masquerade' PARIS The world anti-doping body, Wada, yesterday raised the stakes in the Tour de France's battle to save its damaged credibility by calling for a high-level summit
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    • 771 70 —AFP CYCLING Tourde France CASTELSARRASIN (France) Italy's Daniele Bennati attempted to put racing back on the agenda of the crisishit Tour de France yesterday, claiming his first win on the race after a tough 188.5 km ride here from Pau. In
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    • 634 71  -  TANYO-HINN Defending triathlon champ needs to acclimatise fast if she wants to win again yohinn@media corp.com.sg LAST year, Samantha Beenie won the OSIM Singapore International Triathlon elite women's Open category in a time of 2:05.425. Good preparation was key, according to the Australian,
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    • 296 71  -  TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg ALTHOUGH Singapore won gold in the fiveman keelboat match racing event at the Asian Games in Doha, there remains a dearth of sailors in the keelboat class in the country. To help improve the situation, the Republic of Singapore Yacht Club
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    • 211 71 -DPA TAMARACK, Idaho When Andre Agassi played professional tennis, he didn't dare do anything that might get him injured. "I wasn't allowed to go off a diving board," he said. Since retiring in 2006, Agassi, 37, has become a risk taken He snowboards.
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    • 351 72  -  DARREN LAI RHB Bank Singapore, currently into their third year as title sponsors of the Singapore Cup, were recognised for their contributions to local sport with a double at the Sporting Singapore Inspiration Awards (SSIA) 2007 on Wednesday night. Besides winning the
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    • 159 72  -  -DARREN LAI TEN-man Tampines Rovers came from two goals down to force a 2-2 draw with Sengkang Punggol in their RHB Singapore Cup 2007 quarter-final second leg match last night and qualify for the semi-finals on a 5-2 aggregate. They will face either Balestier Khalsa or Thai side
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    • 671 73 -AGENCIES The Glazers are hardly out of pocket as Man United look to strike it rich on and off the pitch LONDON While Chelsea have exercised remarkable fiscal restraint this summer, Manchester United have apparently gone on a spending spree worthy of Blues' Russian owner Roman Abramovich.
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    • 174 73 ■AFP BANGKOK Three Thai international players have secured trials at Manchester City at the request of the club's new owner and deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, local newspapers here reported yesterday. The Football Association of Thailand has picked centreback Kiatprawut Saiwaew, rightback Suree Sukha
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    • 601 74  -  Cubby Leong This is Gerrard's best team ever, little wonder he's out to knock back United and Chelsea IT IS generally regarded as the hardest league in the world to win. It used to be owned by Liverpool Football Club. Eighteen times Liverpool captains have
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    • 280 74  -  -CUBBYLEONG AT STAKE were seats at Anfield for a Liverpool game in the upcoming English Premiership season. But in the end, Singapore's two representatives in the +CHALLENGE Regional Final the largest grassroots football programme organised by adidas in Asia were dumped
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    • 503 76 Osim's beautiful game EXPOSED! -AFP Bosnian admits his tactics didn't work, but Japan are sticking by their coach FOOTBALL Asian Cup HANOI He flopped trying to get Japan to play the "beautiful game", but at least his employers are going to give him another shot at it. Just hours after
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