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    26 1 TODAY /A=ryJj-\COFIP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Friday March 28, 2008 todayonline.com TODAY /A=£jJj-\CORP MICA(P) 132/10/2007 we set you thinking Friday March 28, 2008 todayonline.com
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    Victoria's future up in the air as other schools make their move
    570 1  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp.com.sg TO HIM, the issue is not about whether Victoria School (VS) goes co-ed. Member of Parliament Teo Ser Luck says the question is whether his alma mater sees education as being about "more than just
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    Tax goodies for R&D to be had
    852 1  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@media corp.com.sg TO CUT costs in his Seoul Garden restaurant chain, Zingrill Holdings chief executive Andrew Lee got creative with the tables. A year's brainstorming and research led to the development of a barbeque station fitted with a special filter that does
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      56 1 LEADERS, CHEATERS WHEN WIVES OF MEN IN POWER SHOULD JUST WALK AWAY I SAY PAGE 8 3% GROWTH IN'08? POSSIBLE, IF US GOES INTO RECESSION: NTU DONS local page 10 oversubscribed hdb should weed out buyers who 'apply for fun' voices page 28 first of its kind Today gets new
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      Dream playground now a reality here
      457 2  -  NGJINGYNG Kid Power is all about high tech and safety, too jingyng@media corp.com.sg IMAGINE going to your neighbourhood playground and hopping onto a bicycle with a speedometer so you know how fast you are going, plus engine sounds to double the thrill. And after
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      Caning error: Now his family files suit
      544 3  -  LOH CHEE KONG Minister for Home Affairs, Director of Prison Services among those named in suit cheekong@media corp.com.sg IT WAS described by the Government as a "regrettable" administrative mistake, and one it took seriously, including censuring the judge who had failed to spot
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      EV71 strain responsible for recent spike in Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease
      261 3  - EV71 strain responsible for recent spike in Hand, Foot Mouth Disease -TANHUILENG THE dreaded Enterovirus 71 (EV7I) strain has been identified as that responsible for the recent spike in Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases. Up until last Saturday, a total of 3,721 HFMD cases have been reported to
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      A slew of grants, but...
      438 4  -  CHEOWXINYI Some SMEs put off by red tape and cashflow concerns xinyi@media corp. com. sg WHILE businesses outside the high-tech sector may be unclear about tax incentives, there is no lack of help for those wishing to move up the innovation ladder. Take Nanyang Optical,
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      It's raining ice ... in Singapore
      242 4 It's raining ice in Singapore WITH the overcast sky and heavy rains reducing his vision, Mr Norman Tan switched on his windscreen wiper as he was driving along the Central Expressway yesterday afternoon. "Suddenly, I see something jumping and bouncing on my windscreen. It doesn't look like rain. It's definitely
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      Making men Aware
      551 6  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Women-rights group rebrands to attract more males nazry@mediacorp.com.sg IT MAY have started reaching out to the other sex in recent years, but the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) still suffers from a public perception that it is a women-only club. Now, the 23-year-old
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      Lock icon isay CHEATERS AND THE WOMEN BEHIND THEM
      694 8  -  CHITRARAJARAM DEPUTY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR chitra rajaram@media corp.com.sg IT'S A scenario we are now familiar with a charismatic leader's career is destroyed when details of his extra-marital affair is revealed. And as sordid fact by sordid fact emerge, his wife and children publicly bear
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      Lock icon FEWER JOBS IN 2008, BUT IT'S NOT ALL BAD, SAY NTU ECONOMISTS
      358 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Whether the United States goes into a recession or not, Singapore will see fewer jobs created this year compared to 2007, said the NTU economists. However, they stressed that the job situation here is far rosier
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      Growth 'may fall to 3%' if US goes into recession
      475 10 THE economy to grow by 5.5 per cent this year. Inflation to stay high as high as 7 per cent in the first quarter before falling. That is the general market expectation for the Singapore economy this year, said economists
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        Lock icon ITE STUDENTS TO STUDY IN FRANCE
        84 12 938 LIVE From next year, a handful of second-year culinary students from the Institute of Technical Education College West Campus can look forward to a four-month stint in Lyon, France. This follows the inking of an agreement between the Institute of Technical Education (ITE)
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        13-YEAR-OLD MALAY GIRL MISSING
        85 12 The police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 13--year-old Shaik Saiwa (picture), who has been missing since last week. The Malay schoolgirl was last seen at a primary school on Yishun Street 71 on March 20 at about 12.30pm. She was wearing her uniform
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        Lock icon LUFTHANSA OPENS SCHOOL IN POLY
        106 12 -938 LIVE Even as it launched a new aviation-training centre at Temasek Polytechnic (TP) yesterday, Germany's Lufthansa Technical Training is already planning an even bigger campus at the future Seletar Aerospace Park. Mr Ralph Kaeding,the general manager of Lufthansa's 1,500-sq-m training centre at the TP
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        Lock icon SOON, AN INDIAN HERITAGE CENTRE
        63 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Singapore will have an Indian Heritage Centre soon on Serangoon Road, announced Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan, who is in India with Senior Minister Goh ChokTong. Singapore already has a Malay Heritage Centre and a Chinese Heritage Centre. An
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      Lock icon Baby survives, 4 die in crash
      203 12 938 LIVE The dead: Her brother, parents and grandmother A TWO-MONTH-OLD girl miraculously escaped death but her parents, grandmother and brother, all from Singapore, were killed when the sevenseater vehicle they were in crashed into two trees along the North-South Expressway in Malaysia. According
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      CID director Lock moves on
      210 12  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@media corp.com.sg HE WAS at the helm of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) during the investigation and prosecution of highprofile cases, such as the "One-Eyed Dragon" murder and that of two-year-old Nonoi. And after some three years in charge, Senior Assistant Commissioner (SAC) Lock
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      Key to a clean govt? Balancing incentives and punishment, says corruption expert
      351 13  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@media corp. com. sg IS PAYING high salaries to our ministers and government officials a reason the Singapore government is clean and is this a good way to prevent corruption? The question was posed by a member
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      $20k grant for singles who live with parents
      465 13  -  JINNY KOH Impact minimal as increase is small: Housing agents jinny@media corp. com. sg STARTING next month, single Singaporeans aged 35 and above looking to buy Housing and Development Board (HDB) resale flats to live with their parents may apply for a
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      774 13 April Giveaways with SingTel's Sweet Treats! NC^' -^x ff wrm -mm. "*"IBL' T^R^MMi|M"pMji BPIiHrHRF^WfIIS 3 ways to register for your Sweet Treats from 28 Mar to 1 Apr 2008 Each Sing Tel customer can choose to register for one of the above treats from the three categories each month. 1)
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      Lock icon Suharto cleared in $1.5b corruption suit
      288 14 -AGENCIES JAKARTA A court threw out a US$l.l-bil-lion ($1.5-billion) damage claim against the late Indonesian President Suharto in a civil corruption suit yesterday, saying he was not responsible for state funds stolen by a charitable foundation he headed. The panel of judges ruled that
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      Lock icon Is he surviving on borrowed time?
      406 14 -AGENCIES M'sian PM welcomes challengers for Umno elections in December KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has backed down from a high-profile spat with the King. Mr Abdullah said the ruling party had decided to resolve a dispute with the country's constitutional
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      Lock icon Dalai Lama the spanner in Bush-Hu talks
      226 16 -AFP WASHINGTON United States President George W Bush has voiced concern over the crackdown in Tibet as another European leader yesterday vowed to shun the Beijing Olympics, which China says are being scuttled by the Dalai Lama. A White House statement said Mr
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      Lock icon BUSH TO HU: TAIWAN WARHEAD ISSUE A 'MISTAKE'
      133 16 -AGENCIES President George W Bush told his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Wednesday that the Pentagon made a "mistake" by sending Taiwan four nuclear warhead fuses in 2006, national security advisor Stephen Hadley told reporters. The Taiwan warhead issue "came up very
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      Lock icon China red-faced
      397 16 -AFP Tibet monks protest crackdown before foreign media BEIJING Monks from one of Tibetan Buddhism's most sacred temples defied China's crackdown to protest in front of visiting foreign reporters in Lhasa yesterday, voicing their support for the Dalai Lama. Two weeks of deadly demonstrations by Tibetans against China's
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        Lock icon CHINA CLAMPS DOWN ON GEOGRAPHICAL WEBSITES TO PROTECT NATIONAL SECURITY
        105 18 -AFP China will clamp down on mapping websites and other online geographical information that it fears might undermine national security. Eight government agencies, including the foreign ministry, are to tighten supervision of geographical information available online, the official China Daily
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        PENANG BUS DRIVER THREATENED WITH PARANG
        118 18 A bus driver in Penang has been threatened with a parang (machete), prompting his bus firm to make a change in its operations. The Star reported. The bus company. Rapid Penang, will no longer stop at the Komtar bus interchange in Penang from today
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      Lock icon She splashed petrol in plane
      305 18 -AP Uighur wanted to hijack and crash China airliner BELTING A 19-year-old woman has confessed to attempting to hijack and crash a Chinese passenger plane that had to be diverted after suspicious liquid was found on board. The official Xinhua news agency said yesterday the
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      Lock icon N Korea expels S Koreans from joint industrial park
      285 18 -AFP SEOUL North Korea yesterday expelled South Korean officials from a joint industrial estate just north of the border in retaliation for Seoul's new tougher line towards the communist state. The move was in protest at comments by the Souths Unification
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      Lock icon Kidney transplants for foreigners on hold
      309 21 —AP Philippines bans them for now until new rules kick in MANILA Philippine authorities have banned kidney transplants involving foreigners, delaying some operations, until a newly-approved order that is aimed at eradicating a thriving black market in organ trade takes effect. Health Secretary Francisco
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        Lock icon UK 'BELOW PAR' ON ASYLUM-SEEKERS
        92 21 -AP Britain's treatment of asylum-seekers fails to meet the standards of a civilised society, according to an independent report published yesterday. The report by the Independent Asylum Commission accuses immigration officials of denying sanctuary to the vulnerable and failing to remove others who should go.
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        Lock icon S KOREA POLL CAMPAIGNING STARTS
        97 21 —AFP Campaigning began yesterday in South Korea's parliamentary election, with new President Lee Myung Bak seeking a majority to enact sweeping economic reforms despite splits in his conservative party. Last month, before a series of breakaways by members who failed to secure nominations, Mr Lee's
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        Lock icon THE FUTURE OF SPACE IS ... ORIGAMI
        114 21 THE FUTURE OF SPACE IS ORIGAMI -AFP Japan plans to take its art of origami paper folding to outer space, launching a paper plane from the International Space Station to Earth to learn about future spacecraft design. Prototype paper planes (picture), folded in the shape of a United States space
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      Lock icon Junta to return power to people
      412 22 -AFP But no date fixed for a referendum to approve a new Constitution NAYPYIDAW (Myanmar) Myanmar's junta chief Than Shwe (picture) yesterday said civilians would take the reins of government after elections in 2010, once a Constitution is approved giving broad powers to the
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      Lock icon Biofuels hurt Asia's poorest
      153 23 -AFP BIOFUELS are not only hurting poor consumers in Asia by driving up crop prices, they are also failing to help the region's farmers who have not been able to adapt their production to cash in on the boom, a United Nations report said yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Half a million could die of Aids in Asia each year: UN
      210 23 —AFP UNITED NATIONS Asian governments must devote more funds to preventing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) or face the risk that the disease could kill nearly half a million people each year across the continent by 2020, a
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      Lock icon Scramble to grow rice
      405 23 -AFP Experts warn on future availability of staple LOS BANOS [Philippines] It is the staple food of half of humanity but only a handful of countries have large rice surpluses, leaving even some of the biggest producers scrambling to grow enough to feed their own people.
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      Lock icon Legally male ... and pregnant
      653 24 Legally male and pregnant -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Transgender man says he's 22 weeks pregnant and is feeling'incredible' LOS ANGELES A man who used to be a woman is five months pregnant, according to an article he has written for a national US magazine that features a picture of him at
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      Lock icon Thai activists, parents urge doctors to stop castrating minors
      266 26 -AFP BANGKOK Gay activists in Thailand said yesterday they are joining with worried parents to urge doctors to stop castrating minors who want to take the first step toward a sex change. Leading gay activist Nathee Teerarojanapong said he and a
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      Lock icon We've been too quiet: Rudd
      242 26 —AFP Australia to play more activist middle-power role SYDNEY Australia's new government aims to take a more activist "middle power" role in glob al affairs, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (picture) said yesterday, before his first major trip abroad. In his maiden foreign policy address since
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        Lock icon EU THREATENS BAN ON ITALIAN MOZZARELLA
        100 26 -AFP The European Commission warned Italy it could follow Japan and South Korea in imposing an import ban on mozzarella cheese, unless it received more information on contamination cases. A spokeswoman said the commission would wait until early today, after which they would look
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        Lock icon BABY RESCUED FROM WELL
        77 26 AGENCIES A two-year-old baby girl who fell into a 14-metre well in India, has been rescued after spending 27 hours in the pit. Rescuers spent much of Wednesday trying to pull the girl, identified as Vandana, from the well in a village near Agra, the site
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      533 28  -  SAMUEL LEE Board should do more to weed out insincere applicants Letter from MY FIANCEE and I are young executives who are looking for a place to live after we get married. We have applied for a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat under the
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      163 30  -  CHUAKHENGYEOW No talking-that's why reader would rather watch movies in Thailand Letter from I REFER to "GV ups prices, too" (March 27). Thailand is one of my favourite overseas destinations, and one of my favourite activities when I'm there is to go to watch movies.
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      162 30  -  KATHRYN LAU Letter from Assistant Corporate Communications Manager Transit Link Pte Ltd WE REFER to the letter, "Why the long downtime?" (March 24). We apologise for any inconvenience commuters may have experienced. To provide better service to commuters, Transit Link is upgrading the Add Value
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      171 32  -  DR BILL MAIER BY DIVORCE IS NEVER GOOD FOR KIDS As a psychologist, I've counselled a lot of divorced parents and it's amazing how many say they broke up for the sake of their kids. The fact is, unless there is emotional or physical abuse involved,
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      256 32  -  SEAH KIAN PENG NTUC has several schemes to help customers save Letter from Managing Director (Singapore) NTUC Fair Price Co-operative WE REFER to the letter "A Discount card the solution?" by Yeo Kwee Boon (March 26). As a social enterprise, NTUC Fair Price's social mission is
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      85 32  -  CHONG CHUNG NEE Letter from Deputy Director (Design Development) for Director (Development Procurement) Housing and Development Board (HDB) I REFER to the letter "It may be time to build playground fences for safety" (March 21). For safety, playgrounds in HDB precincts are located away
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      131 32  -  GEORGE PASQUAL Letter from I REFER to the report "Budget NTUC outlet coming up?" (March 25). It is commendable that NTUC Fairprice is considering a "no-frills" outlet for lower wage earners but more flexibility towards the packaging of items should be put in
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      703 35  -  DR KOH YANG HUANG Many restaurants, cafes and hawker stalls provide healthier options Letter from Senior Deputy Director, Nutrition and Mental Health Education Health Promotion Board WE REFER to the letter by Goh Kian Huat, "Keep Singaporeans small, ban char kway teowT (March 19), and
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      302 39  -  ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg LISTED companies seeking to boost their stock performance should consider investing more time and money into building up their brand. A study of 552 listed firms has shown that strong company branding contributes to a stronger stock performance. According
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      267 39  -  CHEOWXINYI Spore exporters not ready for new Europe ruling cheowxinyi@media corp. com. sg A NEW regulation affecting chemical exporters to Europe is barely three months away but firms here are not adequately prepared to deal with it, according to a Spring Singapore study. To help
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        225 40 -AGENCIES ASIAN markets remained in directionless trade yesterday amid higher oil prices and weak United States economic data. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average ended 0.8 per cent down at 12,604.58, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index finished at 22,664, 0.21 per cent higher. Singapore's Straits Times
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        468 40 BLOOMBERG Temasek'sfund manager confident that markets have bottomed out TEMASEK Holdings' fund management unit said investors have reached "the point of maximum fear" amid the global credit squeeze and that the unit of the Singapore investment firm is on track to meet a target of US$3 billion
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        289 43 —AGENCIES Guaranteed net property income 0f549.5m for 5 years CAPITACOMMERCIAL Trust, one of Singapore's biggest office landlords, will buy a block in the central business district for $1,165 billion. The trust will buy the 23-storey One George Street building from its biggest shareholder, Capita Land,
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        446 43 BLOOMBERG SILKAIR, the regional unit of Singapore Airlines, plans to add as many as 10 planes to its fleet over the next five years to meet demand for air travel in Asia. The carrier, which now flies 14 Airbus
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        335 45 -AFP Exporters of high technology products 'most vulnerable', says United Nations report ASIA-PACIFIC economies are entering a phase of "heightened uncertainty" with ex-port-led countries to be hardest hit by the ongoing financial turmoil in the United States, a United Nations report said. "In
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          241 45 Starting today. Century Square will shine the spotlight on local fashion, with its very own Fashion Fest. The highlight of the event will be two fashion shows held tomorrow and Sunday, at 3pm in the main atrium at Level 1. The shows
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          144 45 To celebrate the launch of a new flavour Mangosteen Marigold Peel Fresh is hosting a "Queen's Party" tomorrow, from Ipm to 6pm at Bugis Junction. The mangosteen is also known as the queen of fruits. Simply present your cut-out coupon from this week's
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        45 48 -AFP AFP NO HU-HUM MACHINE: Taking karaoke to a new level, a machine soon to be rolled out in Japan will let people impersonate animation characters, turning them into superheroes-or mischievous smart alecs -for the night. Voice recording for movies is in the pipeline.
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        EasyReader – boon for Today readers
        592 48  - EasyReader boon for Today readers ARIEL TAM First-of-its-kind platform combines best of Web browsing and newspapers ariel@mediacorp.com.sg READERS of Today can now get the latest news updates via a new digital channel that is available both online and offline. After three months of development with systems integrator partner E-Book Systems,
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        236 50  -  ■HEDIRMANSUPIAN YOU can now tweak your digital photos online and show them off on your blog or Facebook profile using Adobe's online version of Photoshop. Dubbed Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com/ express), the free online service lets users crop, rotate and apply visual effects
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        534 50  -  "GRASS-HOPPER" Fans can still get their fix when TV show is off the air technology@newstoday.com.sg YOU have probably seen many game releases based on or adapted from blockbuster movies but there are not many titles that point to popular television drama series. In fact, on
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        623 53  -  JOSEPH YADAO Nothing short of a concrete wall can stop the speedster in this muscle-car ride joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg YOU'RE the speed demon and everything is just a blur. You clip a parked car as you turn the corner, provoking your car into a highspeed roll
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      1151 54  -  Asif Ansar Can Singaporeans be serious about being funny? Well, listen up. Stand-up comedy in our island-state is now no laughing matter asif@mediacorp.com.sg STOP us if you've heard this one: The latest on Mas Selamat is that he is two-thirds female. Why? Because he is a one-third
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      493 58  -  MAYO MARTIN mayo@media corp.com.sg WE NOW pronounce them Couple of the Year 2008. Last night, lovebirds Jac Kee and Merrylin Seah were named the winners of MediaCorp Channel s's reality special The Wedding Affair. The live broadcast of the grand
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      576 59  -  ASIFANSAR Genre-bending Kyoto Jazz Massive to grace Cavenagh Bridge today asif@media corp. com. sg A MUSEUM wing might not be enough to house the collective works of Japanese club jazz gurus Kyoto Jazz Massive. Over the last 14 years, the Massive, led by brothers
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        95 59 Randy Jackson, better known as the chubby judge on American Idol, has returned to his musical roots with his first album produced entirely by himself, called Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol 7. The album's first single. Dance Like There's No Tomorrow, features vocals by
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        139 59 Indian-born director Shekhar Kapur is to take over an unfinished project written by British film-maker Anthony Minghella. Minghella,who died lastweek, had asked Kapur to direct a short story he had written just days before he went for an operation on a tumour, Kapur said
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      478 60  -  MAYO MARTIN Multimedia artist brings Murakami's novel to life and dance mayo@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN a man in a suit with a sheep's head orders you to dance, what do you do? In the case of multimedia artist Choy Ka Fai, he would Dance Dance Dance. That's the
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        327 61  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH Local band Electrico release new single christophertoh@media corp.com.sg LAST Monday, homegrown indie rock band Electrico (picture) released a new online single with a message of encouragement for young people. Called Everybody's Here, the song expresses the emotions experienced by young people when confronted
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      447 63 -AFP Aussie Sullivan and Frenchman Bernard are smashing records for fun, with more to come SYDNEY Australian Eamon Sullivan (picture) says world records will continue to fall in the blue riband 100-metre freestyle as his rivalry for sprinting supremacy intensifies with French sensation Alain
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      257 66 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Premier League giants Chelsea announced a mini-Asian tour yesterday, but said they may have to cancel the Malaysian leg if their Israeli coach Avram Grant is not allowed into the country. Malaysia does not have
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      215 66 —AFP INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY Spain 1 Italy 0 ELCHE, Spain David Villa scored a stunning left-foot volley to give perennial under-achievers Spain a morale-boosting 1-0 victory over Italy on Wednesday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). In a match between two of the favourites for the Euro
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