Today, 6 September 2007

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    13 1 TODAY opji MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Thursday September 6, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon 'A sad day for Singapore football'
    706 1  -  JOSE RAYMOND jose@media corp.com.sg It was a flashback to the disgraceful scenes during the Asean Football Championship Final between Singapore and Thailand earlier this year. Lastnight, Woodlands Wellington stained the image of the NTUC In-come-Yeo's S-League when its players walked out en masse against
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    HIS GEYLANG HIDEOUT
    668 1  -  LEONG WEE KEAT weekeat@media corp.com.sg FOR a few hours on Monday morning, a hotel room in the Geylang red-light district served as the hideout for a Fulltime National Serviceman, who disappeared from his Army camp with his rifle, triggering an islandwide manhunt And 20-year-old Dave Teo Ming,
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      66 1 COE PRICES MAKE A U-TURN UP ALMOST $10K FOR SMALL CARS HOT NEWS PAGE 3 FRANKFURT AIRPORT A TERROR TARGET? 3 SUSPECTS CAUGHT WORLD PAGE 22 A 2ND CRACKER EXXONMOBIL LOOKS TO STORE AGAIN BUSINESS PAGE 34 NAKED AND AT HOME COOKING UP A STORM WITH JAMIE OLIVER PLUS PAGE
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      Forget sub-prime woes, experts here still upbeat
      623 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG cheekong@media corp.com.sg WITH just four months to go before 2007 draws to a close, private-sector economists have given the economy the thumbs up, predicting that the Republic will power ahead with 7.5-per-cent growth this year. This is up from an
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      Lasalle College's CEO and two vice-presidents quit
      218 3  -  -DERRICKA PAULO THE top management at the Lasalle College of the Arts have tendered their resignations in a surprise move. President and CEO Robert Ely and his two vice-presidents, Professors Richard Berry and Alan Lourens who together form half of the college's current
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      COE prices on the rise
      433 3  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Small cars see the highest rise—s9,BBl weekeat@media corp.com.sg IF YOU did not buy a car last weekend, be prepared to fork out more now. Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices for cars increased across the board in the latest open bidding exercise, which
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      Lee Hsien Yang to head Fraser & Neave Group
      324 4  - Lee Hsien Yang to head Fraser Neave Group -JOHNSON CHOO AFTER leaving his mark with a giant telco, former Sing Tel CEO Lee Hsien Yang has chosen a totally different industry for his new career. Yesterday, mainboard-listed Fraser Neave Group a conglomerate of businesses that include food and beverage, properties,
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      Barbie play-sets being recalled
      408 4  -  SHERALYN TAY Three types sold here affected by Mattel global recall sheralyn@mediacorp.com.sg MORE toys are being pulled off local shelves as Mattel issued its third recall of China-made toys on Tuesday over excessive lead levels the latest in a series of major recalls since last month.
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      Lock icon TO PUNISH OR TO REHABILITATE?
      545 6  -  JASMINE YIN AG Chao on striking the right balance in quest for justice jasmine@media corp.com.sg ON WHAT basis should an offender be hauled to court? The man who oversees all criminal prosecutions in Singapore gave an insight into the workings of the Attorney-General's Chambers yesterday,
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        Lock icon S'PORE, CHINA NOT JUST OLD FRIENDS: SM GOH
        100 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Bilateral cooperation between Singapore and China crossed another milestone yesterday with the launch of Dalian Ascendas IT Park. In a speech. Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said both countries are not just old friends but also close partners. The US$2OO-million
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        Lock icon CLEMENTI SUBUTEX DRUG RING BUSTED
        73 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers have busted a Subutex drug ring in Clementi Aye 1. They seized 130 tablets with a street value of $15,600. A syndicate leader and his supplier were arrested in the operation on Monday evening. Both have drug and
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        Lock icon ENHANCED CREDIT REPORTS FOR CONSUMERS
        90 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Credit reports retrieved from the Credit Bureau of Singapore will now come with comprehensive and indepth statistics, allowing consumers to benchmark their level of credit exposure against others. For example, the average balance for vehicle or personal loans of consumers within the same
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      Yong to be sentenced tomorrow
      355 6  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com.sg AFTER months of running and hiding and finally being arrested in Hong Kong and extradited to Singapore former National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong could know the price he has to pay tomorrow. Yong, 66, who will plead guilty to three
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      Lock icon Global varsity network embraces S'pore
      618 8  -  LOHCHEEKONG LOH CHEE KONG Case sets up an AsiaPacific office here, its first location outside the US and Europe cheekong@media corp.com.sg AMID plans to have a fourth and possibly fifth university in Singapore, an influential networking association for universities has opened its Asia-Pacific office here
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        Lock icon NTUC HITS HALF MILLION TARGET
        80 8 -TANHUILENG The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) yesterday marked the milestone of having half-a-million members. Its Membership Marketing Campaign recruited 26,000 members in three months after its May launch. This is earlier than its initial target of hitting the number by October Over 100,000 of
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        Lock icon AMMONIA LEAK AT JURONG FISHERY
        95 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA An ammonia leak was detected at a cold storage facility at Jurong Fishery Port early yesterday morning. Fishmongers at the port first caught the strong smell of the gas at about 4am, and alerted the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). SCDF officers at
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      Lock icon Media academy reaches out to schools
      200 8 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A RADIO station of their own by year's end that's one of the aims as Northlight School teams with MediaCorp's Singapore Media Academy to learn the finer points of broadcasting, podcasting and film-making. Besides learning the basics such as creating a podcast,
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      JAGA RUMAH SENDIRI WITH HELP FROM OUTSIDE
      883 10  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Dysfunctional families: Don't close door to assistance from other races nazry@media corp.com.sg KEEP your own house in order, or jaga rumah sendiri, is an oft-quoted Malay idiom. But recently this otherwise colloquial adage has taken on a more official tone when applied
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      Lock icon Hundreds flee Bangkok hotel fire
      313 12 -AP BANGKOK A fire broke out yesterday in a popular Bangkok hotel, injuring 16 people and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of guests. The blaze took three hours to extinguish because the 30-year-old building had no water sprinkler system, a police official said yesterday. The
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        Lock icon MALAYSIA CRACKDOWN ON DIESEL SMUGGLING
        80 12 -AFP Malaysian anti-smuggling authorities have detained 11 Myanmar nationals after intercepting two boats carrying contraband diesel fuel worth U*****,800 ($218,200), according to reports yesterday. Two Malaysians were also arrested in what the authorities suspect was part of a wider smuggling operation in illegal-ly-obtained Malaysian diesel,
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        Lock icon MAHATHIR REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS
        74 12 -AP Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad regained consciousness yesterday after undergoing heart bypass surgery less than 24 hours earlier, his family said. "All the signs are good," said his son Mirzan. Dr Mahathir, 82, remained in the National Heart Institute's intensive care unit after being sedated
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      Five-year leave scheme won't hurt civil service: Abdullah
      234 12 PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia) The option allowing Malaysian female civil servants to take up to five years in unpaid leave will not affect the delivery of public service, said the Prime Minister. The new regulation, announced on Monday, allows women in the civil service
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      Lock icon M'sian farmers ordered to get rid of 105,000 pigs
      303 12 —AP KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian authorities have ordered Chinese pig farmers in the south of the country to get rid of 105,000 pigs, after residents complained about odour and pollution from the animals. The government gave farmers in three districts of
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      Lock icon We care about the planet: US, Australia
      473 14 —AGENCIES Bush, Howard pledge to work on post-Kyoto treaty SYDNEY The United States and Australia, the only countries that have refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, pledged yesterday to work within the United Nations system on a postKyoto treaty on climate change. Ahead
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      Lock icon Spend more, Bush tells China consumers
      250 14 -AFP SYDNEY United States President George W Bush yesterday urged China's consumers to spend more to help close a yawning trade gap with the US, as he prepared to meet his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao today. While trade will likely top the agenda at
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      Lock icon Now it's UK's turn
      306 16 -AGENCIES British govt networks hit by Chinese hackers LONDON Chinese hackers, including the Chinese military, have been attacking key British government computer networks, a newspaper reported yesterday. This comes a day after another report said the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) hacked into a computer system
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      Lock icon Another Abe minister feeling the heat
      232 16 -AP TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hit yesterday with yet another scandal calls for his new environment minister to resign over misreported funds. In the latest crisis for the Cabinet the sixth in a year Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita admitted being "sloppy"
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      Lock icon Official executed for mistress' murder
      184 16 -AP BEIJING A former lawmaker and his nephew were executed yesterday for a car bombing thatkilled the politician's mistress. Duan Yihe, 61, was sentenced to death last month for ordering his nephew, a policeman, to arrange a traffic accident so his mistress would "lose her
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      Lock icon B-52 carried nuclear armed cruise missiles by mistake: US
      182 18 -AFP WASHINGTON An armed B-52 bomber (similar to the one in the picture) flew the length of the United States last week mistakenly loaded with as many as six nuclear armed cruise missiles, a US military official confirmed yesterday. The mix-up
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      Lock icon New challenge to Musharraf
      336 18 —AFP ISLAMABAD In a new legal challenge to President Pervez Musharraf's re-election plans, Pakistan's Supreme Court told him yesterday to name the date when his presidential term ends. The details of Mr Musharraf s status are controversial. The government says his term as President and army
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      Lock icon UK accepts stem cell research
      150 18 -AP LONDON British authorities ruled yesterday that research using animal eggs to create human stem cells could go forward in principle. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority decided to accept such research, which involves placing human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs that have had
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      Lock icon Tom Cruise's church faces criminal charges
      195 20 -AP BRUSSELS A Belgian prosecutor recommended that the United States-based Church of Scientology stand trial for fraud and extortion, following a 10-year investigation that concluded the group should be labelled a criminal organisation. The Church of Scientology, which counts American actor Tom Cruise as
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      Lock icon Bush slams Myanmar arrests
      315 20 -AFP SYDNEY United States President George W Bush yesterday blasted the "inexcusable" crackdown on pro-democracy forces in Myanmar as he formally opened a visit in Sydney. "It's inexcusable that we've got this kind of tyrannical behaviour in Asia," Mr Bush said at a joint press conference
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      Lock icon Frankfurt airport target of attack?
      478 22 —AGENCIES Three suspects from anti-US Islamic group arrested BERLIN The German authorities said yesterday that they had arrested three suspected Islamic terrorists from a group with a "profound hatred of United States citizens" for plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks in Germany. "As possible targets... the
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      Lock icon Iraq government is 'dysfunctional': US ombudsman
      216 22 -AFP WASHINGTON An independent United States official auditor has branded Iraq's government as "dysfunctional", fuelling a feud between the White House and Congress at a pivotal moment for future war policy. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki's administration
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      Lock icon Adventurer Fossett goes missing
      260 24 -AP Lack of flight plan hampers search teams' efforts MINDEN (Nevada) Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett (picture), who has cheated death time and again in his successful pursuit of aviation records, has gone missing after taking off in a single-engine plane the day before to scout locations
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        Lock icon SPIES ARRESTED IN NORTH KOREA
        98 24 ■AFP North Korea announced yesterday the arrest of several of their citizens and foreigners for spying on the nation's military and trying to spread democratic ideals. North Korea's National Security Service said the arrests of the spies showed espionage activities against the country were on
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        Lock icon S KOREA'S FIRST ASTRONAUT NAMED FROM 36,000 ASPIRANTS
        106 24 -AFP A scientist who is also a keen amateur boxer was yesterday named South Korea's first astronaut after beating 36,000 applicants. Mr Ko San, 30, is an artificial intelligence and robot researcher at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. He will board Russia's
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        Lock icon AUSTRALIA BLOCKS DOC'S RETURN
        63 24 -AFP The Australian government yesterday launched an appeal against a court decision to restore a work visa to an Indian doctor, Mr Mohamed Haneef, who was cleared of terrorism charges. Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said. Mr Haneef would have been able to return to Australia within
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      A good thing, but...
      499 26  -  JIMMY HO KWOKHOONG UMBOONHEE State may propose annuity scheme but let people decide Letter from I REFER to the article, "Annuities: It's risk-sharing among all" by Mr Christopher Tan (Aug 31). Having an annuity built into the CPF scheme provides one with security during old age
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      FAIZALAIDAT80
      27 26 Having paid taxes for decades, it is not too much to ask for a hand-out from one's motherland if one lives past 85 with no moneytoliveon.
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      A short but costly trip to the bank ...
      423 28  - A short but costly trip to the bank SIMMONGLAN Investment lost value because of time lag in executing sale Letter from AT A time when everyone is talking about improving service standards, I was shocked by my experience at one of the Big 4 local banks recently. I was updating
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    • SHORTTAKES
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        SEATS ON BUSES AND TRAINS
        121 28  -  NG KIM HWA Despite our rapidly-ageing population, public transport operators seem to be reducing the number of seats on buses and trains so that more passengers can be ferried and profits increased. Imagine having to stand, before or after a long day's work, packed like
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        APPLY LOGIC TO FOOD LABELLING
        121 28  -  001 CHUN HOW I refer to the "Did You Know" column in Health Today, (Decoding food labels, Aug 14) on nutrition labelling, which states that a food product can be declared "fat-free" as long as it contains less than 5g of fat per serving. Potentially,
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      218 30  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I MYSTERIES A very puzzled mother asked me: "Why is it that some kids with every advantage and opportunity seem to turn out bad; while others raised in terrible homes become pillars of the community?" I stood there nodding my head as
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      539 30  -  LIANG DINGZI SEVERAL people shared their stories of poor delivery services with me after my article on poor after-sales service, "Sound the alarm on bad after-sales service", (July 26) was published. One story from Today reader Stella Lim stands out Although it deals with the
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      242 32  -  LEONG SZE HIAN CPF rate, tied to bonds, may fluctuate with market Letter from I REFER to media reports that the rates of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Special, Retirement and Medisave accounts will be modified next year. Many Singaporeans might be wondering
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      351 32  -  GOHSHIHYONG Letter from Assistant Director, Corporate Communications for CEO, Agri-food Veterinary Authority (AVA), Ministry Of National Development I REFER to the letters, "It's cruel for stalls to display live seafood in 'death row' tanks" (Aug 25-26) by Dr Tan Chek Wee
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      449 34  -  JOHNSON CHOO ExxonMobil to build another multi-billion-dollar complex in Singapore johnsonchoo@mediacorp.com.sg EXXONMOBIL Chemical Company a subsidiary of the world's biggest oil company, Exxon Mobil has decided to go ahead and build a new international-standard steam cracker complex on Jurong Island. This will be the
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      293 34  -  CHEOWXINYI DOW JONES NEWSWIRES, SINGAPORE Exchange revised the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) 1.3 per cent higher, after an error that saw it post inaccurate values throughout the morning session. The mishap interrupted derivatives trade and follows at least two glitches earlier in the
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      449 36 HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF YOUR LIFE WITH THE NEW SONYT2OO The latest evolution in the bestselling Sony Cyber-shot T-series, the 8.1 mega pixel DSC-T2OO, is not just about taking great photographs. Mr Yosuke Tomoda, 39, who heads the Sony Cyber-shot product planning team and was recently
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      191 37  -  LYNETTE KOH YosukeTomoda, head of the ~200 product planning team This allows users to easily access functions such as the in-camera retouching features. These include k red-eye correction, trimming and B different filtering effects. Playful B touches can also be added
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        275 38 -DOW JONES INDONESIA will need increasing amounts of petroleum products storage over the next few years to serve major oil companies planning to enter the country as it deregulates its oil and gas sector and as traders are unable to lease
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        100 38 KUALA LUMPUR —The Malaysian government has approved a soft loan at 4 per cent interest a year with a repayment period of seven years to the Klang Port Authority to manage the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), Deputy Finance Minister Awang Adek Hussin
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        445 38 DOW JONES SINGAPORE'S Tuas Power will likely be the first among the three power generation companies to be sold by state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings, people familiar with the situation said. "The final decision on which one will go first will be taken late this
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        297 40  -  JOHNSON CHOO DOW JONES DOW JONES PPL Shipyard, a SembCorp Marine subsidiary, has been awarded a US$2Ol -million ($307 million) contract to build a jack-up rig for the Egyptian Drilling Company (EDC) a joint venture between Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and A.P. Moller Maersk Group of Denmark. Construction of
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        335 40 -AGENCIES But stocks could still get hit by more news on sub-prime market SINGAPORE'S shares rose to a one-month high as investors judged recent declines excessive given the outlook for earnings and the economy. However, a glitch that rendered the main index unreliable for part
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        136 42  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg IF YOU find yourself not making long-distance calls, Star Hub may have the answer for you. It announced yesterday the commercial launch of pfingo (phone, finger, Internet, on-the-go), an application that allows users to access emails, chat online and share files on
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        123 42  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg HEINEKEN sold more than 300 million cans or 100 million litres of its beer in Vietnam for the year so far, the biggest by volume sales for Asia. The brewery already leads the pack in market share for premium beer in Vietnam.
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        194 42 DOW JONES NEWSWIRES JAPAN is set to create a new section within its Finance Ministry that will aim to boost returns on the country's huge foreign currency reserves, Ministry of Finance (MOF) officials said. They stressed the new section will not shift the reserves into
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      903 44 -THEDAILYTCLEGFIAPH In his new TV show, Jamie At Home, Jamie Oliver has definitely matured and no longer goes 'bish bash bosh. But he still won't put on a tie kis said that, by the age of 30, Alexander the Great had conquered the known world. Jamie
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        72 46 -AFP Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry is expecting her first child with partner Gabriel Aubry, the actress confirmed on television show Access Hollywood. Berry, 41, told the entertainment news programme that she was three months pregnant. "Gabriel and I are beyond excited and I've waited a long time for
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        117 46 —AFP Spider-Man star To bey Maguire (picture) has married his long-time partner Jennifer Meyer in Hawaii, People magazine reported. Maguire, 32, and Meyer, 30 who have a nine-month-old daughter together tied the knot in front of family and friends on Monday, it said. Maguire, reputed
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      533 46  -  ZULOTHMAN Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto keeps positive and lives for the moment zul@media corp.com.sg BEBEL Gilberto has been cast as the epitome of cool and that reputation is not undeserved. Her music liberally mixes breezy Brazilian bossa nova with a dash of cool electronics, straddling the
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      210 46 FANS don't hail him as the "blind hero" for nothing. Sheer guts saw Kelvin Tan Wei Lian through to the top spot of 2005's Project SuperStar singing talent quest. But recently, the vi-sually-impaired former street busker found himself in the face of something
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      548 48 -AFP After 45 years in the fashion world, the feted Italian designer bows out ROME Legendary Italian designer Valentino, who has dressed the world's most glamorous women for decades, announced his retirement on Tuesday, but promised two final collections for October and January. The 75-year-old couturier, whose full
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        321 50 What's his 'best kept beauty secret' got to do with his tipple, wonders Asif Ansar (asif@mediacorp.com.sg) IT SEEMS that there can be a scientific explanation to anything these days. Even between a person's character and their preference of flavours in this case, Baileys Irish Cream liqueur.
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        956 54  -  SUSANNA KULATISSA Pulau Carey is home to a tribe that communes with spirits through its sculptures Susanna k@media corp. com. sg IT'S hard to imagine that the ensemble of fluid lines, ultra-smooth surfaces and intricate carvings in front of me was once a block of
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          100 56 CTC Holidays will hold a travel fair for Muslim travellers this weekend at the Atrium of Muslim Converts' Association of Singapore. The tour packages are customised and offer halal meals and mosque visits. Destinations include Cumalikizki, a 700-year-old Ottoman village in Turkey, the Everland Theme Park
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          95 56 If the price of vacationing in Britain is what's keeping you from setting foot on that lovely isle, consider the latest packages offered by British Airways and Visitßritain. The tours start from $1,322 and include return airfare and accommodation. Among other places, they cover England's north country; London
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        191 56  -  LYNETTEKOH KOREAN drama serial fiends who have long coveted the picture-perfect looks of the female characters onscreen now have a tour tailor-made for them by Chan Brothers Travel. Join MediaCorp Class 95FM DJ Vernetta Lopez on the 6 Days Korea Ultimate Beauty and Shopping Indulgence departing
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        1074 58  -  NAZIR KESHVANI traveller@newstoday.com.sg EVEN the most in-the-know travelers persist in believing that Tokyo is a destination only for the superrich. But Tokyo can be less daunting if you know where to go and what to avoid. To save costs, I stayed in a capuseru koteru or
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        516 60  -  LYNETTE KOH Get on the Amadeus Classic and get out of bed to a new Eastern Europe city lynettek@mediacorp.com.sg HAVING had our fill of multi-city packaged tours where more time seems to be spent on coaches than at places of interest, we were intrigued by one of
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        705 61 —AP Genoa's history makes it an intriguing port of call GENOA, if you ignore the debate among scholars, is the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But after visiting the famed historic port, you might wonder why the explorer ever left. Tricked out in all the
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        569 62 Get heady on the vast lavender fields in Tasmania TASMANIA'S role as a high-quality lavender producer began more than 85 years ago when an enterprising family from England established the Bridestowe Estate Lavender Farm. The Denny family selected the north-east of Tasmania for its climatic similarities with the
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        519 64 -AP Forget Taco Bell, these are the genuine bites, worms included A SOFT flour tortilla stuffed with melted Chihuahua cheese and fresh squash blossoms. Chilli and chocolate laden mole, or sauce, draped over succulent chicken breasts. Spit-roasted-pork tacos topped with pineapple, onion and cilantro. Whether you
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      226 67 TRINIDAD Tobago turned on the style last night to beat Northern Ireland 59-37 in their 5 Nations Netball Cup 2007 clash at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall. The favourites, ranked world No 10, have posted three wins on the trot, after earlier successes
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      633 69 DAILY TELEGRAPH Star fly-half could miss champions' pivotal clash with South Africa next week PARIS England's fragile confidence was hit on Tuesday when a freak accident in training deprived them of fly-half Jonny Wilkinson with a twisted right ankle for their opening World Cup game against
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      250 69 —AFP ENGHIEN-LES-BAINS, France World Cup darkhorses Argentina have chosen two pairs of brothers for their opening clash of the tournament with hosts France tomorrow (Saturday morning, Singapore time). Felipe Contepomi will partner his brother Manuel in the centres while lock Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe will be in
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      255 69 -THE GUARDIAN PARIS The mistral may have blown in here but the World Cup favourites, New Zealand, who open their tournament at the Stade Velodrome against Italy on Sunday, are feeling the heat to such an extent that their head coach,
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      758 70  -  KEVIN MCCARRA -THE GUARDIAN LONDON Steve McClaren is warming up for Saturday's struggle against Israel by committing himself to polite yet unflinching conflict with Liverpool. The England manager is more intent than ever on fielding Steven Gerrard in the Euro 2008 qualifier at Wembley despite
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      339 70 -THE GUARDIAN LONDON Steve McClaren may have expressed confidence that Steven Gerrard will be available for England's dou-ble-header against Israel and Russia. But Rafael Benitez' misgivings about the midfielder's fitness were endorsed last night by one of the country's
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