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  • 13 1 TODAY /AediaCorp MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Friday August 3, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 954 1  -  VALCHUA CHEOWXINYI TEMASEKREVIEW2OO7 ButTemasek cautious about market corrections ahead and growing protectionism DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR val@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS the elephant in the room that threatened to overshadow the big picture. As Temasek Holdings unveiled what it described as an "excellent" annual report card
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    • 48 1 OUT OF TOP JOBS, I OUT OF SIGHT WHERE ARE OUR CLINTONS, BLAIRS I AND AL GORES? AN XTRA PERSPECTIVE IN WEEKEND TODAY I TODAY^*O Qy REPORT Your FREE copy inside Hi ■Hiiiii^iiiiiiiiliiiVtf^^FßEE 6 SLICESB"""""K^M^W WITH TWIN PACK t^-^^^ jJ^BIV I*Ju/y 3 1"August 2007 Hurry, while stocks last.
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    • 41 1 $238 GROUP WEALTH ADDED $9.1 B NET PROFIT, DOWN FROM 512.88 $1648 NET VALUE OF PORTFOLIO, UP FROM $1298 38% RETURNS ON INVESTMENTS PER ANNUM SINCE 2002 38% OF PORTFOLIO INVESTED IN STORE; 40% IN ASIA $500 M TEMASEK TRUST CREATED
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    • 193 2  -  -VALCHUA TEMASEKREVIEW2OO7 Temasek profiled its diverse team in its review, which can be found at www.temasekholdings.com.sg Want proof of Temasek's commercial focus when it invests? Look no further than the foreign presence on its team. Some 31 per cent of its 254 employees are
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      733 3  -  CHRISTIE LOH TEMASEKREVIEW2OO7 christie@media corp.com.sg THEY trooped in, decked in black, serious faces all. Almost in sync, they slid into their seats, lined up in a row before a roomful of journalists eager to fire away at the trio chairing Temasek Holdings' first media briefing ever on
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    • 254 4 KUALA LUMPUR A senior Cabinet Minister has broken ranks with the Deputy Prime Minister on whether Malaysia is an Islamic state or not, reported Malaysiakini. Mr Bernard Dompok, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said yesterday that the nation's founding fathers had
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    • 398 4  -  DERRICK A PAULO derrick@media corp.com.sg THE United Nations (UN) has stepped into the Singapore family home, and would like to see changes. Marital rape, domestic violence and mailorder brides, for example, are fresh talking points in Singapore's record on women's issues over the
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    • 296 6  -  SHARON VASOO Focus on three issues at summit in Singapore DEPUTY FOREIGN EDITOR sharon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE, which took over the Asean chairmanship yesterday, wants the bloc to get to grips with the three Cs. But unlike Singapore's well-known five Cs, it's got to do with more
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    • 315 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg A KEY task for Singapore as Asean's new chairman is to help the grouping meet its deadline of setting up an economic community by 2015. Singapore's challenge is to ensure that member countries live up to their commitment to implement
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    • 92 7 is Singapore* to the winners of 1 bigness Singapore Business Ifm f awards Events Awards 2006 r^i Foods&HotelAsia2oo6 K^S Singapore Exhibition Services CCOR H I Suntec j SINGAPORE llr Accor Asia General Managers' £S53S?SSr*"* Novotel Clarke Quay Singapore Suntec Singapore 6-10 NOinmbeA' 2006 Bl^^^toa. SINGAPORE 12th Asian-Australian j Joint Marketing
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      • 81 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A new hotel is set to come up at the corner of New Market Road and Merchant Road. The Urban Redevelopment Authority has launched the site for sale by public tender. The land parcel, which has a 99-year lease and is near the
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      • 73 8 Former National Kidney Foundation chairman Richard Yong, who is scheduled to be extradited to Singapore today, is expected to appear before the Subordinate Courts tomorrow. He will face charges under the Penal Code and the Bankruptcy Act, said the Ministry of Law and the Commercial
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    • 191 8  -  -TANHUILENG PARENTS of students taking the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) can submit their choice of secondary schools online at the end of the year. They can also check their children's Secondary 1 posting results through the Internet, or an interactive telephone system
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    • 401 8  -  UNYANQIN Encouraging demand for new Beacon Primary School yanqin@media corp.com.sg ITS future is so full of promise that some parents don't mind Beacon Primary School's past, or lack of it By the time Phase 2C of the Primary 1 Registration Exercise ended
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    • 382 10  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Rasif's alleged aide gets five years and five months weekeat@media corp.com.sg THE property agent who allegedly conspired with missing lawyer David Rasif to pocket almost $1 million during the sales of 22 properties was sentenced yesterday to five years and five months jail. Goh
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    • 235 10 IN THE first seven months of the year, Singapore police received 23 reports of lottery scams from victims who had parted with their money after being told they had won cash prizes in lucky draws held by foreign firms. The
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    • 289 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg WITH ATM card skimming on the rise worldwide, Singapore could take the lead in organising a forum on the issue involving banking specialists and law enforcement agencies. Making this call was DBS Bank's head of compliance, services and security Peter
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    • 478 12  -  DAPHNECHUAH Heart patient, former teen rebel go on to inspire others and win an award for it daphne@mediacorp.com.sg AT AGE 12, Ms Goh Chern was called a "walking time bomb". An only child, she was diagnosed with Wolfe Parkinson White Syndrome, a life-threat-ening heart
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    • 82 8 We will recreate old jobs into more productive MARINA BAT 2007 jobs and turn cheap-sourcing into best-sourcing so that low-wage workers of today can earn better wages tomorrow. We will make our workplace more age-friendly and family-friendly We will do more to retrain and redeploy our workers affected by business
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    • 211 14 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Government ministers in Malaysia, whose football team was routed in last month's Asian Cup, have been barred from key positions in sports associations to avoid having their image tarnished. Sports minister Azalina Othman told The Star that ministers would not
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    • 165 14 BLOOMBERG MALAYSIA should ease policies that favour the Malay majority if it wants to reduce income inequalities and ethnic divides, said the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute. The nation also needs to counter corruption, improve its education system and ease investment rules to stay
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    • 295 14  -  SUJADI SISWO lndonsawaitAugB polls as campaign ends INDONESIA BUREAU CHIEF CHANNEL NEWSASIA(CNA) sujadi@media corp.com.sg JAKARTA The campaign period for Jakarta's first ever local election comes to a close today, five days before 5.7 million voters choose the capital's new governor and vice-gov-ernor the most
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      505 16 -AGENCIES Fisher-Price pulls back nearly 1 million pieces WASHINGTON Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of China-made toys including the popular Big Bird and Elmo characters because their paint may contain excessive amounts of lead. The recall, announced on Wednesday, involves 967,000 plastic pre-school toys made by a
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    • 206 19 —AFP WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has warned that that if he was elected president of the United States, he would be ready to order military strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan, even if Islamabad objects. In a major speech on Wednesday, laying out his anti-terrorism
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    • 306 19 -AGENCIES Bridge collapses into river during rush hour MINNEAPOLIS Hopes dimmed for survivors after a bridge over the Mississippi river collapsed during the evening rush hour on Wednesday, plunging cars, trucks, buses and their occupants, together with massive chunks of concrete, into the rushing waters. Divers
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    • 263 20 —AFP MANILA China took aim yesterday at efforts to counter its dramatic military rise, taking centre stage at Asia's main security forum to insist it would be a force for peace and stability. At closed-door talks in Manila, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi criticised what
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    • 132 20  -  SHARON VASOO Ministers atthe Asean Regional Forum (ARF) yesterday issued a statement calling for the swift release of South Koreans held captive in Afghanistan by the Taliban They also condemned the taking of the hostages and the murder of two of them. Singapore's Foreign Minister
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    • 234 20 -AP MANILA Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, donning beach wear, pondered with his deputy why they had to fly halfway around the world for an Asian security forum that was all "blah, blah, blah". Mr Lavrov should have been cut down by indignant
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    • 191 20 -AFP BEIJING An online game in which players can torture and kill corrupt officials, setup by Chinese authorities to teach people about the perils of graft, is proving a roaring success, state media reported yesterday. Incorruptible Fighter (picture), created by China's Zhejiang province's government
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    • 336 22 -AFP Report details what went on after the killing of de Menezes LONDON A watchdog report criticised British police yesterday over the killing of an innocent man in the wake of the 2005 London bombings, saying there were "serious weaknesses" over how the mistake
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    • 220 24 -AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand's Assets Scrutiny Committee (ASC) yesterday agreed to press criminal charges against Mr Thaksin Shinawatra for abuse of his position in ordering an increase in Burma's soft loan from the Export-Import Bank, reported the Bangkok Post. There was strong evidence Mr
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    • 406 24 -AFP GHAZNI (Afghanistan) Taliban militants said yesterday they were ready to meet a South Korean delegation over the fate of 21 hostages held in Afghanistan for more than two weeks, after two others were shot dead. South Korea is desperate to end the ordeal
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    • 259 26 —THE GUARDIAN LONDON British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic face a £300-million ($926-million) lawsuit brought by millions of air passengers, after their roles in a price-fixing cartel were exposed by the authorities yesterday. The class-action lawsuit to be fought in the United Kingdom
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    • 302 26 -AFP 10 new ministers named in reshuffle HANOI Vietnam's national assembly yesterday confirmed Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's new Cabinet line-up, giving him a younger and leaner team to lead the communist nation while avoiding radical change. Ten new ministers were named in the reshuffle, but
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    • 207 26 -AGENCIES RAMALLAH (West Bank) United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday that Israel was ready to discuss "fundamental issues" to advance the stalled Middle East peace. During the meeting, Mr Abbas also signalled his willingness to compromise, saying
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    • 313 28 -THE GUARDIAN LONDON High-stress jobs make young workers twice as likely to suffer from major depression and anxiety disorders, according to a British study of mental health in the workplace. Psychiatric assessments of nearly 1,000 people in the early stages of their
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    • 207 28 -AGENCIES BANGKOK Huge haze clouds over the Indian Ocean contribute as much to atmospheric warming as greenhouse gases and play a significant role in the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, according to a study published yesterday. Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan and his colleagues sent unmanned
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    • 462 28 -THE GUARDIAN News Corps takeover of Dow Jones polarises staff, readers, board members NEW YORK Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's US$5.6-billion ($8.5 billion) takeover of the Wall Street Journal's publisher prompted a mixture of resignation and angst, with frustration that so many members of the Bancroft family had
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    • 296 31 —AFP LONDON A leaked internal Labour Party memo published yesterday suggests that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may call an early general election to capitalise on his current popularity. "We have to have a strategy of audacious advance. The best way...
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    • 211 31 -AFP LONDON The government warned Britons yesterday to avoid getting into trouble as they jet off on summer holidays, with notable hotspots including Thailand, Greece, Australia, India and Prague. The Czech capital has become a major troublespot for Brits due to drunken pre-mar-ital parties that head there,
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    • 188 31 —AFP TOKYO—A powerful typhoon slammed into southern Japan yesterday, injuring three people, disrupting air and land traffic and cutting electricity to thousands (picture). Packing winds of up to 126kmh and bringing heavy rains, typhoon Usagi was moving north over Kyushu island after landing shortly from
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    • 833 32  -  FRANK CHING THE failure of the six-party talks to agree on a schedule for North Korea to declare and disable all its nuclear programmes shows that there are major obstacles ahead, although the first phase providing for the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor
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    • 219 34  -  GILBERT GOHKEOWWAH Are career demands killing marriages in Singapore? Letter from I REFER to recent reports about the rising divorce rate in Singapore. I believe that long working hours have contributed greatly to this trend. Couples often spend over 12 hours at work and go home drained by the
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    • 163 34  -  NEO LENG HUI Letter from I HAVE been very frustrated with banks and call centres constantly calling me to sell their products. Despite telling them repeatedly that I am not interested, they start calling me again after a few months. I am not
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    • 273 36  -  ENG SOH SENG Letter from Deputy Director (Car Parks) Housing Development Board (HDB) I REFER to the letter from Mr Peter Lo, "HDB reply missed point of parking issue" (July 27). In a letter to Today by Mr Mak Wai
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    • 341 36  -  11 summoned for blocking ambulances in first half of the year Letter from N SUBHAS Director, Public Affairs Department Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) I REFER to the letter, "Didn't they know a life was at stake?" (July 27) by Mr Mak Wai Keong and would like
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      • 67 36  -  LAU KIM HUP: I refer to recent reports of the HDB offering 3,000 new flats to help meet the housing demand. It leads me to wonder why Blk 112 in Bukit Merah View has been left vacant for several years, instead of being rented out
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      • 87 36  -  LEEKOKLIN: Recently, while travelling on the TPE towards Punggol 21,1 saw two delivery vehicles, bearing Malaysian licence plates, spewing thick black smoke from their exhaust pipes. It surprised and infuriated me that, while Singapore registered vehicles are abiding by the rules when it comes to
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    • 259 38  -  DR JAMES DOBSON ///BY MAKE MONEY FROM HOME For many families, an appealing way to bring extra income into the home is by building a home-based business. Is it possible to run a business out of your home while still taking care of your children and
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    • 791 38  -  Tabitha Wang but not a single one is stopping SHE stands under the lamppost. The drivers slow down and wind down their windows. She leans in and makes her offer in the most attractive terms possible. Yet, one by one, they shake their heads and zoom off.
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    • 589 44  -  JOHNSONCHOO Investment firm's long-term plan is to have equal exposure in three key areas johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg TEMASEK Holdings, whose long-term strategy is to have equal investments in three geographical areas, rode on a wave of strong Asian economic growth in the last financial year
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    • 313 45  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN With rapid Asian economic growth and the opportunities that come with it, Temasek embarked on alternative investments in the past year that ranged from setting the first infrastructure business trust in the region to funding a research institute on diseases. Dr
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    • 140 45 The 10 to 11 -per-cent returns for Temasek's 10-year total shareholder returns by market value is pretty respectable. For the last 12 months, Asian stocks have really rallied quite substantially. MSCI Asia, the US dollar have gone up 40 per cent, so I take it the
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      • 295 47 -AGENCIES Local shares rebound from worst decline in 4 months SINGAPORE'S Straits Times Index (STI) ended higher in volatile trading as jitters over credit problems linked to the United States housing sector continued to roil sentiment. "The markets are bungee-jumping as they sort
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      • 345 47  -  -JOSEPH YADAO -AGENCIES Developer Wheelock Properties has sold half of the 338 luxury apartments in Scotts Square (picture) in a private placement this week. The 60:40 ratio of local and foreign buyers remains in place as Singaporeans or permanent residents bought 63 per cent of the units. Indonesians made
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      • 278 48 -BLOOMBERG HONG Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Holdings may sell its one third stake in Singapore's Marina Bay Financial Centre (picture) to Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) when the complex is completed in 2010. The stake is likely
        -BLOOMBERG  -  278 words
      • 278 48 -DOWJONES IMF expects Asian economies to enjoy strongest growth GLOBAL market turbulence in the wake of rising risk aversion requires close monitoring, but there is no need yet to rethink the broadly positive outlook for the world economy, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary
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    • Technology
      • 449 50  -  JOSEPH YADAO This year's WCG see two all-girl teams battle it out in a testosterone-charged arena joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg HUNDREDS of local gamers descended on the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre yesterday for the World Cyber Games 2007 Asian Championship (WCG), which kicked off
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      • 531 52  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg WHETHER it's the real or virtual world, playgrounds can be a pain. Cruising in a Ferrari 308 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu turned into a harrowing experience for me when I got harassed by a couple of bikers in Test
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      • TIME TO POWER UP, GAMERS
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          66 54 Set in an underwater city, this first-person shooter aims to revamp the role-playing game genre. It lets you do things never before possible in both genres. Bioshock has a wholly-inter-active environment where you can turn everything into a weapon and modify your body with the help of DNA-modi-fying concoctions.
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        • 81 54 Nintendo describes this as a worthy successor to Super Mario 64, which brought Mario 3D. Now, Super Mario Galaxy as its name implies will bring it even higher to the next level. The ingenious Wii Remote certainly adds an extra dimension, letting you hurtle Mario through space
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          70 54 It goes without saying: Hab 3 will rock and should live up to expectations. With the multiplayer beta we got our hands on, the new weapons and maps are awesome and the graphics are exactly what you would expect of the Halo series. Even after you complete the
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          60 54 Imagine Guitar Hero 111 on steroids. This multiplayer game combines synchronised karaoke, electric drums, guitar and bass done in the style of Dance-Dance-Revolution. You'll be having head-banging sessions with your friends or siblings in your living room, much to your parent's dismay. Get set for addictive group gameplay
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        • 67 54  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN, JOSEPH YADAO, TREVOR TAN Hellgate: London plays like a firstperson Diablo (it's made by the team from Blizzard responsible for that series), so you probably know what to expect in terms of gameplay. Here's the lowdown on it: kill hordes of demons and collect bling at
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    • 801 58  -  ZULOTHMAN SlNGfest 2007 forced to slash prices due to a slew of concerts this month, reports BILLED as a foretaste of greater things to come, the inaugural SlNGfest 2007 to be held at Fort Canning Park next week has got off to a slow
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    • 625 59  -  NGIAMYINGLAN yinglan@media corp. com. sg IT WAS rising divorce rates that prompted Jasmin Seah (picture) to write a book on love and marriage. And not just any book, mind you, but one for which she had interviewed 40 couples among them
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    • 145 60  -  -THE GUARDIAN AFTER four years of lobbying, films featuring gay themes or characters will take centre stage at this year's Venice film festival, with the introduction of a new award. The Queer Lion award will sit alongside the regular Golden Lion award with the
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    • 415 60  -  Zul Othman CONCERTREVIEW ////by I The Cure IF THERE was ever an award given out for the "best value for money" concert, then The Cure's performance at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Wednesday would lock in the grand prize. Clocking in at a full three
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    • 484 62  -  JEANINETAN Singaporean artists making their mark overseas: Dr Lee jeanine@media corp.com.sg NOT only does Singapore now have more arts events and a bigger arts-loving audience, but our artists have also gained international recognition. That was the message from Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communication and
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      349 64  -  JEANINETAN Modern approach to promoting multiethnicity as presented in Soundwaves concert jeanine@mediacorp.com.sg THIS year is shaping up to be a year of several firsts for the People's Association. The annual Soundwaves the flagship concert of PA Talents, which is the performing arm of the People's Association made up
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        760 66  -  ALEXIS PETRIDIS —THE GUARDIAN Music legend Prince takes centrestage with eccentricities and all plus@newstoday.com.sg PRINCE arrived in London on Wednesday for the first night of a mind-boggling 21-date residency at the former Millennium Dome with a familiar sound ringing in his ears: That of people suggesting that
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      • 138 66 -AP JACKIE Chan's new action comedy, Rush Hour 3, won't be shown in China. "We think the market for the movie is relatively weak," Xiao Ping, a vice-presi-dent at state-run China Film Group's import and export arm, said on Tuesday. The Chinese government carefully screens foreign
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      • 1008 68  -  Felix Cheong I Donnie Yen pulls no punches for his craft... FRIDAY WITH FELIX plus@newstoday.com.sg YOU may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks. But for Hong Kong star Donnie Yen, learning new marital arts moves is what keeps him going. And it's all
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      • 142 69 -AP SCARY Spice went to court on Wednesday hoping to seek child support from Eddie Murphy. The singer, whose real name is Melanie Brown, filed a petition in the US Superior Court that seeks to legally establish Murphy as the father of her four-month-old daughter,
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    • 538 71  -  JOSE RAYMOND Precious'younger brother Emmanuel makes giant defender feel at home NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Gombak United v Albirex Niigata Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm jose@media corp.com.sg HE HAS been away from Nigeria for almost six years now, his birthplace Lagos is thousands of kilometres
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    • 344 71  -  DARREN LAI darren@mediacorp.com.sg THE S-League Selection will be counting on an all-Singapore attack when they head to Kuala Lumpur looking to retain the Sultan of Selangor's Cup at the Shah Alam Stadium on Aug 11. V Sundramoorthy taking over from national coach Radojko
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    • 587 72  -  DARREN LAI Stags score crucial win over SAFFC to keep title hopes alive NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Tampines Rovers 2 SAFFC 0 darren@mediacorp.com.sg TAMPINES Rovers got their title challenge back on track after a tough 2-0 victory over leaders SAFFC in their top-of-the-table league clash last
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    • 243 72  -  TANYO-HINN THE Singapore Silat Federation (Persisi) are embarking on a drive that they hope will eventually see the martial art included in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. Silat was an exhibition sport at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan and is set to
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    • 312 72  -  CUBBYLEONG SQUASH CIMB Singapore Women's Squash Masters WORLD No 1 Nicol David may be the hot favourite to win the U5543,500 ($65,900) CIMB Singapore Women's Squash Masters title, but the Grinhams want to make it a family affair. World No 2 Natalie
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    • 649 73  -  Jose Raymond Comment by jose@mediacorp.com.sg World Cup schedule could hit S-League hard, but the Lions must take priority SINGAPORE football is at a crossroads. The Lions are kings of the region and after some great performances over 'f the last 18 months against newlycrowned Asian champions Iraq,
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    • 286 73 -AGENCIES SYDNEY English Premiership champions Manchester United have just signed nine-year-old Australian boy Rhain Davis (picture), according to news reports here yesterday. United start youth squads for players aged eight and above, but it's not often that they recruit young talent from as far
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    • 407 73 -AFP NOTTINGHAM England coach Peter Moores is considering asking for the volume on stump microphones to be turned down so his side's "sledging" of India's batsmen is no longer heard by television viewers. During the ongoing Test series, which the tourists lead 1-0
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    • 713 74  -  LAN DE COTTA Kingsbury teams up with Spore trauma specialist with aim to form medical unit for 2008 Grand Prix ian@mediacorp.com.sg THE death of Ayrton Senna at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994 represented a watershed for the sport The FIA, the sports
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    • 395 74 -DPA LONDON The Formula 1 spying row took a new turn yesterday after McLaren-Mercedes accused Ferrari of winning the opening Grand Prix in Australia with an illegal car. McLaren team boss Ron Dennis made the claim in an open letter to the FIA, the sport's
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    • 521 76 —AFP Only Champions League win will fulfil Abramovich's dream of turning Chelsea into a world force LONDON Now Jose Mourinho knows the size of his task. He has guided Chelsea to two Premiership titles, one FA Cup and two League Cups during his three-year reign
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    • 301 76 —AGENCIES LONDON Newcastle United were dealt a double blow yesterday with the news that Joey Barton had been charged with assault over a May 1 training ground fight with a former team-mate. Earlier, it was confirmed that Kieron Dyer was on his way
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    • 239 76 —AGENCIES SAO PAULO-In a remarkable revelation, Brazilian football confederation (CBF) President Ricardo Teixeira (picture) said that alcohol was partly to blame for the team's failure at the Germany 2006 World Cup, the 0 Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported in their Wednesday edition. Teixeira,
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    • 568 77 -AFP Eriksson signs more foreigners, but he's not about to talk up his team's prospects MANCHESTER How long before Manchester City field their first-ever team made up entirely of non-British players? Sven-Goran Eriksson may have been in charge less than a month, but the rebuilding
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