Today, 25 August 2007

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  • 28 1 weekendTODAY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 /A-DJACORP we set you thinking August 25 26, 2007 todayonline.com weekendTODAYTbiMY MICA (P) 311/10/2006 //\=D]ACORP we set you thinking August 25 26, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • 899 1  -  DERRICK A PAULO CHEOWXINYI Rehiring policy has to be sound on the ground: NTUC AND derrick@media corp.com.sg WHEN the new policies for older workers take effect, what happens if someone who hits the retirement age of 62 cannot get rehired and cannot use his
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  • 148 1 UNIONISED COMPANIES Of the 209 that have re-employed more than 3,000 older workers beyond the retirement age: 20 per cent agreed to offer the same job at the same pay. 10 per cent adopted the "different job, different pay" approach. 70 per cent offered the same
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • hot news
    • 458 2  -  CHRISTIE LOH XTRA PROFILE At 81, she leads an active lifestyle but regrets not having learnt Mandarin christie@mediacorp.com.sg I HAVE counted 59 steps on my way up four floors, following the exercise regime of Mrs Ann Elizabeth Wee on mornings when the weather acts up to deny
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    • 172 3 The labour movement will have three target groups in mind as it helps to make re-employment work. Women will be an immediate priority as NTUC intensifies efforts in its back-to-work programme in a more concerted manner. Singapore's employment rate for women is below
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    • 620 3 "So I was very conscious that there was a need to aggressively counteract this idea." Much has improved since then, she says. In his National Day Rally speech last week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong celebrated several Singaporeans above 60 for their active lifestyles. Mrs Wee was
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    • 566 4  - Win, not lose, when you draw later LEE U-WEN u-wen@mediacorp.com.sg MOST will have no choice come 2012 but for older workers who will be spared the deferred draw-down age on their Central Provident Fund (CPF) minimum sum, an even bigger carrot is being dangled to get them to voluntarily receive
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    • 321 4 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) has announced details of the enhanced Additional CPF Housing Grant (AHG) Scheme that would give lower-in-come families a bigger subsidy for their first HDB flat purchase. The income ceiling for the AHG has been raised from $3,000 to
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    • 366 4  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI nazry@mediacorp.com.sg MOSQUES are the traditional places for Muslim youths to learn about Islam, but soon they can find out more about the religion at blogsites, online forums and even sports clubs. And students can forgo the dreary prospect of tests and examinations as schoolwork
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    • 161 4 STORE AND M'SIA DISCUSS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES The next emergency response exercise for chemical spills at the Malaysia-Singapore Second Crossing will be held by Singapore, tentatively in November. The Republic will also organise the first table-top emergency response exercise at the East Johor Straits, tentatively in the first quarter of
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    • 1262 6 XTRA THE GOOD FIGHT Hurdle to changing world is too much complexity, not too little caring BILL GATES IMAGINE, just for the sake of discussion, that you hac a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to do nate to
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  • singapore news
    • 167 8 —AFP STARTING BID PRICES FOR A SEAT ECONOMY CLASS BUSINESS CLASS AlRLM^ls'suif ES THE online auction for seats on the first commercial flight of the super jumbo Airbus A3BO, between Singapore and Sydney, will start on Monday, Singapore Airlines (SIA) said. SIA is set to
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    • 197 8 CONCERNS over whether the Singapore economy is at risk of overheating, and if recent spikes in prices and property rentals are impacting its competitiveness, dominate the list of issues to be debated in Parliament on Monday. Four Members of Parliament (MPs) have tabled
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    • 735 8  -  LOH CHEE KONG Company was only a sub-licensee for titles, says judge's ruling cheekong@media corp.com.sg ANIME distributor Odex had "no right of civil action" against illegal downloaders because it was just a sub-licensee not the copyright owner or exclusive licensee for
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    • 1099 10  -  CHARLES TAN XTRA LIFE AND DEATH When thinking about our 'rights' to death, are there double standards? DEATH is perhaps the only truly universal trait that we all share and thus, identify with regardless of culture, status, or faith and yet it is still taboo (if
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    • 472 12  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI CHEOWXINYI 12 council members of manufacturing body call for meeting over thorny issues nazry@media corp.com.sg ALLEGED defamatory remarks. Suspending the duties of an honorary treasurer. These are some of the thorny issues that a special council meeting of the Singapore Manufacturers' Federation
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    • 352 12  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp.com.sg THE reason that more than 8 in 10 executives turned down job offers in the past year: They simply could not get the flexibility they wanted. This is what a worldwide survey of 138
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    • 241 12  -  -LOHCHEEKONG A 15-year-old teenager, who was charged on Friday in the Juvenile Court for making a bomb hoax call, had skipped school and committed a string of offences including theft He was arrested shortly after his friend, a 13-year-old boy, surrendered to the police
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
      • 61 12 Imported used cars registered in Singapore from Sept 1 will be eligible for the Preferential Additional Registration Fee (PARF) benefit, in line with the Government's objective encouraging a younger vehicle population. The PARF benefit will be granted upon de-registration if the car is not more
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      • 119 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A 16-year-old boy was killed in an accident at Hougang Central on Friday. An SBS bus was making a turn from Hougang Central towards Hougang Aye 10 when it hit the boy, who was crossing the road. The driver is helping Police with
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      • 55 12 The Singapore Bay Run Safra Sheares Bridge Run and Army Half Marathon on Sunday from sam to 1.30pm, will start at the Esplanade Bridge and end at Marina Promenade. Some roads will be closed in staggered stretches from 2.30 am to 12.30pm. To enquire, call 6377-9860.
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  • world news
    • 337 14 —AFP KUALA LUMPUR Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe closed a threenation tour in Malaysia on Friday, where maritime security in the piracy-hit Malacca Straits and economic ties topped the agenda, officials said. After talks between Mr Abe and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,
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    • 458 14 -AGENCIES YANGON Myanmar's military government quashed a new protest on Friday by prodemocracy supporters in downtown Yangon, as activists said the demonstrations had spread to other parts of the country. A group of 20 demonstrators, mainly women, had gathered near Yangon's city hall
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    • 305 14 KUALA LUMPUR When Malaysia's Parliament reconvenes on Monday, it should discuss the soft loan the Malaysian government is giving to rescue the main port authority from a debt of US$l billion ($1.5 billion), an opposition politician has said, according to the malaysiakini
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    • 211 15 -AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's government ordered a Tamil-lan-guage daily to immediately halt publication for a month on Friday, as punishment for printing an image of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette, a newspaper official said. Mr SM Periasamy, general manager of Makkal Osai, which caters
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    • 142 15 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand enacted a new army-backed Constitution on Friday, after King Bhumibol Adulyadej formally signed the charter that was approved by voters last weekend. This now becomes the 18th Constitution that Thailand has used since the end of absolute monarchy 75 years ago. The military-installed
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    • 894 15  -  -THE GUARDIAN XTRA VIRTUAL MEMORIALS Many find solace in online postings to ease the pain of losing loved ones MYDEATHSPACE.COM FOUNDER MIKE PATTERSON: HOW PEOPLE MOURN IS CHANGING. I CAN'T GO AND MOURN SOMEONE WHO DIED ACROSS THE COUNTRY BUT I CAN VISIT THEIR WEBSITE. "DIANE Deb,
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    • 1344 16  -  VENESSA LEE XTRA POWER PLAY China's soft power extends beyond current crisis venessa@mediacorp.com.sg A MONTH before the start of the 2004 Olympics in Greece, the IT system needed for the Games was still incomplete, according to Mr Jiang Sheng, a Chinese computer engineer who was in
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    • 300 16 -AGENCIES BEIJING China, under pressure to improve the quality of exports as varied as food and toys, will run a four-month campaign to weed out defective products and repair the damage to the nation's brands. The campaign, which will run from September
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    • 226 17 —AFP SEOUL An unmanned US military spy plane used to monitor North Korean troop movements has crashed near the heavily fortified inter-Kore-an border, US officials said Friday. The Shadow 200 went down near the Camp Casey US army base at Dongducheon, 18km
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    • 394 17 -AP 102-YEAR-OLD GETS A SPOT IN PRIMARY SCHOOL A 102-year-old woman in Belgium has received a letter from her local council officials confirming she has a place in the local primary school. Mrs Stephania Marien, a widow living in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, said the letter was a surprise, reported
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    • 282 18 -AFP SEOUL Many South Korean soldiers on guard against North Korea no longer present a rough, sunburnt face to the enemy. Some members of the largely conscript army "now rival women in the use of cosmetics, and some even order wigs to disguise their
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    • 459 18 -AFP S Korean woman held by the Taliban stayed behind so that another could be freed SEOUL A South Korean woman aid worker held by Afghanistan's Taliban gave up her chance of freedom so that another could be released in her place, said two freed hostages. Kirn
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    • 1239 19  -  ROSS WALLACE XTRA MOST POWERFUL WOMAN String of powerful male mentors may nave contributed to failures of 'most powerful woman in history' ross@mediacorp.com.sg CONDOLEEZZA Rice is looking for a few good men. In fact, she has been for most of her life. Starting from childhood, on
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    • 342 20 —AP MANILA- South-east Asian economic ministers approved a blueprint on Friday that would transform the region into a booming free trade zone by 2015. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (Asean) blueprint aims to turn the region of 500 million people
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    • 326 20 China or Japan: Who will be the first to get there? TOKYO Japan claims its space project is the biggest since the American Apollo missions put the first humans on the moon. China,.hoping to pave the wayfor its manned missions, says its probes will
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    • 290 20 -AGENCIES TOKYO Days before a Cabinet reshuffle, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe's party publicly criticised him on Friday in an unusual move over a crushing election defeat Separately, Defence Minister Yuriko Koike said she did not want to keep her position
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    • 1139 21  -  THANONG KHANTHONG THE NATION -AFP To look for new leaders, the country'recirculates elites' THAI politicians usually come and go through a process known in political theory as the "circulation of elites". This theory stipulates that about 20 per cent of the old faces disappear every four years.
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    • 679 22 -MCT Sydney targets male ego after previous scare ads fail to reduce accidents SYDNEY After failing to scare young men into driving more slowly, Australian authorities have hit on a new tactic: Questioning their virility. An advertising campaign (picture) features passengers and passersby waving
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    • 191 22 BEIJING United States Internet giants Yahoo and MSN confirmed on Friday they had signed a code of conduct for their blogging operations in China that committed them to protecting the interests of the Chinese state. A journalism advocacy group, in reaction, said this may
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    • 180 22 -AFP SYDNEY-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's staff were on Friday accused of editing entries in the online WiMpedia to remove potentially damaging details. A spokesman said the Prime Minister never asked his staff to remove unfavourable comments from the website, which allows anyone to make
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    • 354 22 AGENCIES ISLAMABAD The Pakistan Supreme Court's decision to allow President Pervez Musharraf s archrival, Mr Nawaz Sharif, to return from exile has thrown Pakistan's politics into turmoil and threatened the American strategy of support for the president The decision on Thursday dealt a blow
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    • 213 23  -  GUARDIAN MINNEAPOLIS Inspectors searching for causes of the collapse of a Minnesota bridge this month that killed at least 13 people have identified pigeon droppings as a possible factor. It is thought the build-up of guano over many years could have speeded up
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  • Voices
    • 152 24 I said, what about people who are 120 years old? The staff told me, we don't know because when you reach 120, the computer assumes that you forgot to report something and transfers you to a different file. One day, there may well be somebody who is 120 years
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    • 643 24  - Early bird specials the way to go NEIL HUMPHREYS That's THE secret to dealing with an elderly population news@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE'S Prime Minister is concerned with the country's ageing population and is eager for them to live more active lives. Clearly, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has never participated in Super
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    • 243 24  -  DRTANCHEKWEE Letter from I WISH to express my concern about the display of live crabs and frogs in tanks at eating places such as coffeeshops and even hawker centres. I was told that there are even stalls with
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    • 660 25  -  JOCELYN TEO XTRA DIFFERENT STROKES, DIFFERENT FOLKS When it comes to love, age ain't nothing but a number for these men So, why this fascination with older romen? A quick check with my male friends n the 20-25 age group reveals the folowing preferences when it
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    • 345 25  -  JANICE TAY Letter from SHOULD we be worried when we consult a doctor for a persistent cough and he keeps prescribing more of the same medicine? If the medicine is not helping the cough, a wise doctor would probe further to find out what other factors
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  • Business
    • 838 26  -  JOHNSONCHOO johnsonchoo@mediacorp.sg Experts say combination of financial instruments needed for retirement ITS history can be traced to the United States in 1740, when the Presbyterian Church gave regular payouts to provide for the needs of the clergy and widows till the day they
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    • 388 26 THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) is looking into DBS Group Holdings' previously-under-reported exposure to collateralised debt obligations (CDO), which repackage bonds, loans and credit-default swaps and use the income to pay investors. The bank has $2.4 billion worth of exposure to CDOs, which is more than
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    • business news
      • 355 28 Pharmaceutical output pushes figures to biggest gains in 13 months, beating analysts' expectations SINGAPORE'S industrial production in July surprisingly grew at the fastest pace in more than a year, as drug companies increased output to meet orders. Manufacturing, which accounts for about one quarter of Singapore's US$l34-billion
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      • 283 28 Five directors quit on Friday from Stats ChipPac, a computer chip-tester listed on Nasdaq and in Singapore. They are deputy chairman Lim Ming Seong; Mr Steven H Hamblin; Mr. Richard J Agnich; Dr Park Chong Sup; and Dr RobertW. Conn. This leaves the company with seven directors including Mr
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      • 260 28  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg THE short supply of available office space in the central business district is driving financial institutions to be more flexible when planning their real estate needs. "Currently, banking and finance tenants occupy 36 per cent of all Grade A stock
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      • Article, Illustration
        150 28 CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA WORKSHOP SAE Institute Singapore, in partnership with Qantm College, one of the most successful and innovative creative digital media educators in Australia, will host "Study for a Day" on Saturday. This workshop aims to provide anyone interested in creative animation and games programming with hands-on experience.
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      • 844 29  -  ROSS WALLACE XTRA CHEAP CHIC Rush to roll out low-cost cars, but Singaporean pride may trump reason ross@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S not exactly the type of car you'd expect to be at the leading edge of a trend. But that's precisely where a new model
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      • 268 30 —AGENCIES SINGAPORE share prices slid, trimming their best weekly gain in almost six years, as concerns over the fallout from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis persisted. Sentiment took a hit when the chief of the biggest US home loans lender said a housing slump might lead
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      • 251 30 BLOOMBERG THE heat is on the airline industry, as British Airways (BA) and Korean Air Lines have been fined US$3OO million ($457 million) each in a US court after admitting they reached secret agreements with competitors in setting
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      • 265 30 —AFP JAPAN'S central bank (picture) said on Friday it was draining funds from the banking system for the first time in seven days in the wake of recent market turmoil. To mop up excess liquidity, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said it was
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      • 562 31  -  DR MANOJ THULASIDAS XTRA OFFICE POLITICS Knowledge can be a bad thing, if others are taking credit for it TECHNICAL knowledge is not always a good thing for you in the modern workplace. Unless you are careful, others will take advantage of
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      • 232 31 BLOOMBERG Mr Cheng Mei-Wei is the chairman and chief executive of Ford Motor Co's operations in China. He share; some of his experience with The Wall Street Journal. What's the best career advice you ever got It was from Jim McNerney (currently chairman and chief executive of
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  • weekend plus
    • 1256 32  -  LUSCIOUS LASHES PEARLYN THAM With so many ways to extend and upkeep your lashes, you're simply a curler away from capturing your inner Sushmita Sen pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg SHORT, straight and sparse best describe the lashes on Chinese women. But they are not the only ones in Singapore
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    • weekendstyle
      • 605 34 FUNCTIONAL FASHION Desmond Yang launches his latest collection and you're going to love it in more ways than you can wear it PEARLYN THAM pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg HIS clothing label Abyzz may read like the word "abyss" but Desmond Yang's career is far from being in a rut The
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      • 310 34  -  PEARLYN THAM THE integrated resorts may not be up and running yet, but you'll still be able to play a game of chance with the new Mystery Game collection by Lancome for Fall. If you can't decide on whether
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      • ATAGLANCE
        • 76 34 When Esprit declares "the world is our culture", it really means it, especially in its Sports AutumnWinter collection. Esprit has pulled together inspirations from a variety of genres to make even dressing up for the gym or the track fashionable. For a touch of the Orient, there's
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          65 34 This Fall, Bally touches on modern elegance for the women and the 60s dandy for the men. In its Autumn-Winter collection, Bally's offerings include tuxedo trousers, tulip skirts, jackets with velvet and satin inserts, soft knits and appliqued dresses, with a satin bustier adding some extra oomph
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          80 34 Lingerie gets a fashion boost at La Senza this Fall. The So Free collection now comes in leopard and giraffe prints and in Fall colours such as granite, grape and chestnut. Available in five different styles, the So Free collection can be mixed and matched for a unique
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        • 83 34 Finally, there's more to the traditionally drab FallWinter season than the usual blacks and greys. Lanvin has injected bold colours, such as opera red and flaming pink into its latest collection, which work well with the geometrically constructed clothes. Think dramatic sculpted sleeves, artistic folds and
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      • 317 35  -  LYNETTE KOH WE KNOW there are many football-crazed females out there but, frankly, we think the football displayed at the Singapore International Jewellery Show (SIJS) 2007 will appeal to a broader spectrum of women. Encrusted with more than 7,500 black and white diamonds, the
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      • 448 35  -  PEARLYN THAM Love anything to do with watches and horology? Sign up to be a member at Sincere Watch Academy pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg A NEW institute of learning will open its doors here next month but it's not the fourth publicly funded university mentioned during the recent National Day
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      • ATAGLANCE
        • 112 35 Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tennis celebrity couple Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf (picture), and film icon Catherine Deneuve may be worlds apart in terms of their contributions and fortes. But they have all been chosen for their "full and interesting lives" to be featured
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        • 60 35 This is one watch that really serves as a fashion accessory. The Koppel pendant pocket watch from Georg Jensen is a study in minimalist chic. Priced at $1,430, the pendant pocket Koppel watch is strung on a black cord with a steel fastener and can
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        • 62 35 Perspiration-soaked skin is not glam#orous. But a healthy-looking sheen on skin is. The new La Source ~ss?s: Body Glow by Crabtree Evelyn ($3B) has sesame oil and aloe vera to moisturise your skin. Flecks of mica give your body a pearly glow, enhancing your skin tone.
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    • weekendmakan
      • 872 36  -  NEO CHAI CHIN LITTLE EATS chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg WITH SO MANY RESTAURANTS OFFERING MORE THAN JUST FOOD FOR TOTS, NO WONDER THE KIDS ARE GOING "MUM-MUM!" CHEF Claudio Rossi has a sure-fire way to get children excited about eating serve up their favourite dishes, and throw some fun into
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      • 215 36 CAPERS, THE REGENT SINGAPORE Tell Mum Dad to call: 6725 3205 Kids' menu available from 6.30 am to 1 1 pm daily. AQUAMARINE AND RISTORANTE BOLOGNA, MARINA MANDARIN SINGAPORE Tell Mum Dad to call: 6845 1111 Kids' menu available from noon to 3pm on weekdays, noon to 4pm
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      • 282 38  -  ANNETTE TAN POSH PICKINGS The Royal Copenhagen Tea Lounge in Takashimaya is a hideaway of good food amid bustling Orchard Road food@newstoday.com.sg The tai-tai set otherwise known as ladies-who-lunch always know the best places to enjoy a quiet tete-a-tete or a good meal (they don't call
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      • 169 38 LET'S DO BRUNCH Now you can have your fix of breakfast favourites, even if you're working the graveyard shift. Pan Pacific Singapore's Brunch restaurant the first in Singapore to serve brunch throughout the day has extended its opening hours till 1 1 pm nightly. In addition to the existing
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      • 641 38  -  EVELINE GAN FROM tomorrow to next Sunday, fans of Indian vegetarian food can indulge in a 25-item vegetarian feast at Spice Junction known for its dishes from the Indian coastal state of Kerala. The elaborate vegetarian feast, called the Ona
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      • 304 39  -  LOCAL wine enthusiasts who have been dutifully cellaring their Penfolds red wines for the past 15 years or longer now have a chance to find out if their efforts have borne fruit On Sept 12, Peter Gago, chief wine-maker of premier Australian wine producer
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      • NEWSTRACKS
        • 133 40 Honda has unveiled the all-new Accord (picture), which it hopes will take the large saloon fight straight to the popular Nissan Cefiro and Toyota Camry. The current model is outsold by both these cars. Larger and far more stylish, the new Accord will be available
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        • 102 40 A fuel efficiency gauge (picture) will soon be a standard feature in all new Nissan cars. The Japanese auto-maker announced this in Tokyo on Tuesday, adding that facelifted versions of current models will also get the device. The gauge can display both instantaneous consumption and average
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        • 100 40  -  This three-door hatchback is the Kia pro_cee'd (picture), which makes its world premiere at next month's Frankfurt motor show. Silly name aside, the pro_cee'd is a significant new model, signalling Kia's intent to portray a more sporty image. Although the car was designed chiefly for Europe and
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      • 576 40 COLIN YONG colin@mediacorp.com.sg THERE are plenty of things which Italians do really well play soccer, make kitchen appliances and look stylish without even trying, to name just three. But when it comes to high-performance hatchbacks, they're some way down the competency ladder. It's a bit strange, because the
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    • 765 41  -  JULIAN LOW IN JEREZ, SPAIN DELUXE DRIVE Bentley's Continental GT Speed is not only luxurious, it is also impossibly fast n ews@ newstoday.com.sg SPEEDING along the open highways of the Spanish Andalucian region at over 220kmh and still accelerating hard, I was suddenly told to slow
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    • 507 42 48 HOURS WHAT TO DO FHIS WEEKEND PAGE 44 TOP OF THE POPS Get up close and personal with some of the best and upcoming names in local Mandopop at Saturday's YES 933 Pick of The Pops street concert. Performers at the tree, open-air songfest,
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    • 247 42 ROYSTON Tan's 881 has been given the thumbs up by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who said he enjoyed the film "very much" and has even encouraged some of his friends to go see it "The musical has all the elements of a
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      • 51 44 SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2 (TV PREMIERE) Channel 5, 7.45pm A group of smart-talking toddlers find themselves at the centre of a media mogul's experiment to crack the code to baby talk. The toddlers must race against time for the sake of babies everywhere. Cast: Jon Voight and Scott
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      • 64 45 VASANTHAM STAR 2007 Vasantham Central, 6pm After arduous rounds of auditions and qualifying rounds, the Vasantham Star competition is down to the Top 10 contestants. Now the exciting elimination rounds begin, where the Top 10 will compete for the next six weeks with one being eliminated each time.
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        447 45 MICA (P) 273/06/2007 YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS (AUG 25-31) RUSSIA! Catch this reading of a one-act play, featuring LimYu Beng, Maureen Yeo and Vivienne Wong. The play follows Grace Tan, an undergraduate at Yale University, as she navigates the Guggenheim Museum's Russia! exhibition with her father.
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    • 672 46  -  CUBBY LEONG NEW TEAMS, YOUNG FACES SNOC announce Singapore contingent for Thailand, with an emphasis on youth cubby@mediacorp.com.sg HOCKEY and squash failed to get the nod for the 2005 SEA Games in Manila, rugby was not even on the events' list But for the 24th
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    • 469 46  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby® mediacorp.com.sg RANKED 10th in the world, Trinidad Tobago's netball team are the favourites in the upcoming 5 Nations Netball Cup here. The tournament, which will be held at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall from Sept 3 to 8, will also feature Canada,
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    • 434 47  -  JOSE RAYMOND IN SHAH ALAM jose@mediacorp.com.sg SOME 18 months after he arrived in Singapore, Radojko Avramovic's (picture) men did so well they attracted 55,000 fans to the National Stadium, as the Lions stormed to victory in the 2004/5 Tiger Cup.
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    • 520 47  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Home United v Geylang United Bishan Stadium, Sunday 7.45pm msazali@mediacorp.com.sg HOME United's bid for their first S-League title since 1999 took a big hit on Monday after a crushing 4-1 defeat at the hands of arch-rivals SAFFC. The
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    • 591 48  -  GUARDIAN HISTORY MAKERS Eight years after Johnson's magical feat, his protege is ready to go even faster HE KNOWS THE RECORD WILL BE BROKEN ONE DAY AND HE HOPES IT WILL BE BY ME. HE GIVES ME TIPS AND ADVICE Johnson (right) is Warmer's
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    • 286 48 OSAKA Two-time Olympic champion Ed Moses (picture) has warned that a medallist is likely to be banned for drug use at the World Athletics Championships. The legendary American hurdler was responding to comments from former drugs supplier Victor Conte that "the use
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    • 532 50 BLACK AND WHITE Right now it's not about the title but just team spirit, says Juventus boss Ranieri SERIE A Juventus v Livorno TURIN Rarely has the "Grand Old Lady" not been in the mix when it comes to preseason talk about the Scudetto. But
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    • 3017 53  -  RAJIV NAIR sports@newstoday.com.sg FREE FOR ALL? WITH the transfer window due to close on Aug 31, only the sale of Fernando Torres from Atletico Madrid to Liverpool for a reported £27 million ($B2 million) comes close to the £31.8 million believed to have been paid by
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    • 561 56 AGENCIES TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK Facing the sack, new Trotters boss pleads for patience as he tries to repair deep-seated problems at the club ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP J***** BOLTON Lose at home on Saturday to Reading and it will surely be curtains for Sammy Lee at Bolton. Even
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    • 474 56  -  THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Aston Villa v Fulham LONDON Should Kevin Blackwell and Dennis Wise ever take a walk through the tight terraced streets surrounding Windsor Park they would be well advised to don disguises. Mentioning the names of those Leeds United managers
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    • 1172 57  -  THE GUARDIAN LONDON In Thaksin Shinawatra's revolution, which has launched Manchester City to a euphoric, unexpected position at the top of the English Premiership, agent Jerome Anderson has been a central figure. During the breathless three weeks after Thaksin's £21.6 million ($66 million) takeover and
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    • 472 58  -  i *m z i*if^ DEPUTY SPORTS EDITOR david@mediacorp.com.sg OFFSIDE POOR David Beckham must be regretting his move to Los Angeles, now that he's back in the England picture. He never would have ended up in this mess if not for his
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    • 553 58 AFP PREMIERSHIP $wff TIME OUT SUNDERLAND Rafael Benitez hasn't ruled Steven Gerrard out of the Champions League clash with Toulouse, despite the Liverpool captain missing Saturday's Premiership trip to Sunderland. Gerrard's broken toe sidelines the England midfielder at the Stadium of Light, but Benitez insists
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    • 343 59 -AFP MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson has increased the hostility between Manchester United and Liverpool by revealing that the Premiership champions are to investigate the role played by their Merseyside rivals during the acrimonious transfer tug-of-war involving Argentina defender Gabriel Heinze. Heinze, who was refused
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    • 627 59  -  KENNETH GOH kenneth@mediacorp.com.sg EYE ON THE BALL A DECADE after he made his international debut against Mexico in 1997, England are reportedly set to turn to him again to solve their goalkeeping woes. Suddenly, David James is very much in the spotlight.
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    • 607 60 -AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man United v Tottenham MANCHESTER Premiership champions Manchester United turned their winning squad into an even more potent side to defend their title. Tottenham were confident that with their new crop of signings, a Champions League spot was within sight
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