Today, 19 July 2008

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  • 10 1 weekend TODAY July 19-20, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 619 1  -  NEOCHAICHIN RETAILWOES Basement 2 feeling slowdown the most, but CAAS is helping to bring crowds back chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg IT OPENED to much fanfare on Jan 9, with 20,000 square metres of commercial space and hordes of curious Singaporeans flocking to view the new terminal a month before
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  • 607 1  -  LEONGWEEKEAT weekeat@mediacorp.com. sg AS THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) correspondent, he covered Nguyen Tuong Van's hanging for a heroin trafficking conviction here, which sparked political criticism and public anger Down Under. Ironically, senior journalist Peter Lloyd now finds himself the subject of Australian
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    • 175 1 XTRA SWEDE SOLUTION More babies? Only if we have the one thing money cannot buy. A mother of two tells you i what and why. Page 6 HOT NEWS E BANK IN CRISIS ÜBS shies away from clients in the United States, and accusations that it helped Americans stash away
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  • NEWS
    • 758 2 BANK IN CRISIS Bank stops offshore banking services as American clients come under tax scrutiny WASHINGTON ÜBS, the world's largest wealth manager, said it will stop offering offshore-bank-ing services to Americans, as the United States government tightened the screw on banks suspected of helping clients evade
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    • 362 3  -  ANSLEY NG ansley@mediacorp.com. sg CONCERNS over security slip-ups and its impact on public confidence are set to be debated in Parliament on Monday, after a series of lapses in the past few months. A motion of adjournment on this will
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    • 814 3  -  RICHARD HARTUNG XTRA THE FOURTH UNIVERSITY Just what can our next tertiary institution bring to the academic table? news@newstoday.com .sg SETTING up Singapore's fourth university is a momentous event and creates excellent opportunities to showcase Singapore's leadership in tertiary education. Now that details
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    • 542 4  -  TEOXUANWEI GALLOPING PRICES Search for solutions include investing in high-yield overseas sources and a review of local farming policy xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg AS MORE food price hikes loom over the horizon going by a recent United Nations prediction that prices are set to climb "at least
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    • 76 4 Close to 700 people turned up at St Andrew's Cathedral on Friday to say a final goodbye to the late Dr Ong Chit Chung. The mourners included his family members and relatives, Cabinet ministers and grassroots leaders, as well as members of the public.
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 136 4 ThenexttimeyouareinJohorand need police assistance, call 07-*****99. This 24--hour hotline will be manned by officers who speak English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. The Johor police assured that they will respond to all complaints within 15 minutes. They will also inform the
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      • 149 4 LINYANQIN Opposition politician Chee Soon Juan's application to reconvene the hearing for the assessment of damages relating to a defamation suit involving Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has been rejected by High Courtjudge Belinda Ang. A letter from the Supreme Court Registrar dated
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      • 132 4 938 LIVE Motorists travelling to the Marina Bay area on Saturday can expect congestion due to road closures for the National Day Parade preparations. From Bam to midnight, lanes of Raffles Avenue, Republic Boulevard, Esplanade Drive and Connaught Drive will be
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      • 138 4 A promotional trip to Japan earlier this month is the latest initiative by Singapore and Indonesia to jointly ensure that the special economic zones (SEZ) in the Indonesian islands of Batam, Bintan and Karimun continue to draw international businesses. The mission's aim was to
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    • 1219 6  -  CRISPINA ROBERT XTRA BABIES A year's paid leave for dads? Seems great but it may not work as well here I AM 38, a mother of two and as far as I am concerned, my husband and I have done our part in replacing
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    • 773 8  -  SHERALYNTAY REN CI WOES Charity can start a hotline, promote visits and learn from NKF's precedent sheralyn@mediacorp.com. sg AS IT sets about the daunting task of regaining the public's faith, while the highprofile court case involving its former chief threatens to drag
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    • 199 8 Q+A MR George Quek, the founder and chairman of Bread Talk, one of Singapore's top bakeries, shares some business tips with The Wall Street Journal. Who gave you the best business advice and what was it? George Quek: Chen Kuo Hua, the department store manager at
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    • 409 8  - Their spirit lives on as promoters of education ALICIA WONG alida@mediacorp.com.sg THEY attend the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at the Singapore Management University, but some students are still hazy about the man whom their school is named after. To year one student Shawn Loo, 23, Mr Lee is
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    • 865 10  -  DHARMENDRAYADAV XTRA THAT 22-YEAR-OLD LAW lETfi TJ ■77 Legislature has made it tougher not impossible for practitioners to comment on reforms THE Law Society has long desired to see a change to a 22-year-old amendment that ended its powers to propose legislative reforms. Last week, it
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    • 1032 12  -  KENNETH TAN KENNETH TAN XTRA AT THE MOVIES A powerful review can make or break a film, but not all movie critics are created equal news@newstoday.com .sg A GOOD friend of mine has this to say about movie reviewers: "When a critic says don't watch,
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    • 145 14 938 LIVE MOTORISTS are advised to avoid roads in the vicinity of Shangri-La Hotel till Thursday. Traffic is expected to be slow, especially during peak hours, due to security measures for the Asean Ministerial Meeting, Post-Ministerial Conferences and Asean Regional Forum to be held at
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    • 86 14 Constructed using 150 twenty-foot long shipping containers, The Containart Pavilion at the Central Promontory Site was created by Japanese artist Shigeru Ban to house three of the largest indoor installations of Singapore Biennale 2008. The exhibition, which runs from Sept 11 to Nov 16, aims to
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    • 676 14 AFP ASEAN MEET Ministers will also discuss oil and food prices, FTAs in meetings starting Sunday AN ASEAN meeting in Singapore next week may well end up with a joint statement that is unusual by the group's standards: A call on Myanmar to release all
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    • 42 14 "For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for WGlfdfG; andPGQC© and not for evil, to give you HOp© in your final outcome". The Bible Jeremiah 29:11 —iISSt ©LIVING FAITH CHURCH www.thelivingfaith.org
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  • WORLD
    • 1021 15  -  ONG KIAN MING OON YEOH XTRA MALAYSIAN POLITICS He had strong momentum after March elections, but has political fatigue set in? and in KUALA LUMPUR news@newstoday.com .sg OPPOSITION leader Anwar Ibrahim has had strong political momentum on his side since the general elections in March. Mr
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  • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
    • 111 16 AGENCIES A border clash Friday left two Bangladeshi troops dead and one Indian soldier seriously wounded, military officials said. The clash occurred when an Indian border patrol vessel tried to prevent cattle from being smuggled into Bangladesh on a boat, said Ashish Kumar Mitra,
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    • 196 16 AFP The angry parents of two Australian girls abused by a Catholic priest flew to Sydney on Thursday to demand that Pope Benedict XVI make good on a pledge to apologise to victims of predatory clergymen. The pontiff indicated en route to Australia
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    • 344 16 AP THAI-CAMBODIA BORDER DISPUTE PREAH VIHEAR A Cambodian general said a border standoff between his soldiers and Thai troops came close to a shoot-out as the confrontation over disputed territory entered its fourth day on Friday. The dispute, centred around Cambodia's 11th century Preah
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    • 272 16 AFP YALA (Thailand) Televised claims of a ceasefire by separatist militants were derided on Friday as a hoax by residents in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, after a veteran insurgent leader disavowed the move. A group called Ruam Pak Tai Khong Prathet Thai
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    • 217 16 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has provided an alibi to police to prove he did not sodomise a male aide but will not give a DNA sample for fear it could be manipulated to frame him, his lawyer said on Friday. His lawyer,
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    • 320 17 AFP MANDELA'S BIRTHDAY Tributes pour in preparations underway for celebratory events around the country QUNU (South Africa) Mr Nelson Mandela (picture), the icon of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africa's first black President, celebrated his 90th birthday on Friday as tributes poured in from
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    • 275 17 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH PENSIONER FAILS EXAMS FOR3BTHYEAR An Indian pensioner has failed his high school exams for the 38th consecutive time but vowed to continue taking the tests until he dies. Mr Shiv Charan, 74, from the desert state of Rajasthan, learned last week that he had failed in
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    • 440 17 AFP BEIJING From sweatbands to secret hand signals and even peeling oranges, human rights and other activists are seeking novel ways to circumvent tight security at the Beijing Olympics and pressure China. Faced with a barrage of campaigns on
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    • 1206 20  -  TAMAL MUKHERJEE XTRA INDIA'S SHOWDOWN India's accidental Prime Minister stands firm as naysayers take aim at his Uo nuclear deal ABOUT a decade and a half ago, I was editing an English newspaper in Calcutta when Dr Manmohan Singh walked into my office with a
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    • 383 21 She got 10m, if you must know THE DAILYTELEGRAPH MILLIONAIRE DIVORCE Briton posts details of marital alimony payout on Internet LONDON He laid bare the financial details of his divorce for the world to see on the Internet to stop "tittle-tattle" and malicious gossip about the breakdown of his 20-year
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    • 248 21 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH FEARS over France's nuclear reactors have been raised as the government orders ground water tests at its 58 power stations after a uranium leak at one polluted local water supplies. The safety lapse at a plant in Provence run by French nuclear giant
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    • 66 21 Tropical storm Kalmaegi brought torrential rains to southern Taiwan on Friday, triggering flash floods and landslides. At least seven people were killed, with six injured and six more reportedly washed away by rampaging waters. The storm also disrupted land and air traffic. Many rail services were
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    • 784 22  -  IKRAR NUSA BHAKTI PRESIDENTIAL RACE Polls show that the present government's woes may herald Ms Megawati's return sindo@mediacorp.com.sg AT A recent seminar on the China-South-east Asia relationship in Xiamen, a senior colleague from Singapore asked me a question: "How is Indonesia under President Susilo
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    • 382 24  -  Mohamad Rosle Ahmad MAKING BABIES Reader says: Thanks, but no thanks to having more children Letter from I REFER to "Mum needs dad around, too" Ouly 18). Other than being pregnant, giving birth and breastfeeding, whatever mummy can do, daddy should "pun boleh" (also can do).
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    • 265 24  -  Ong Cher Meng Letter from I REFER to "Landmark ruling" (July 18). The judge has ruled that the fact that a higher offer was received for the en bloc sale of Horizon Towers is not within the purview of the Strata Title Board (STB);
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    • 110 24  -  Lionnel Lim Letter from I REFER to "No PC? Not so 'ez' link" (July 18) and "EZ-Rewards come with loyalty" (July 14). I have two ez-link cards and tried to register both online, but could only do so
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    • 106 24  -  Leong Kum Chuen Letter from ON Wednesday morning, in a hurry to catch a bus, I slipped and fell down a short flight of stairs that led to a bus stop at Jurong East. It was around 7.30 am and the bus stop was
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    • 827 25  -  NATASHA NAIR XTRA PREGNANCY How surprising that most of the best and most down-to-earth advice was given by men news@newstoday.com .sg I AM six months pregnant and this is our first child. When my husband and I were at the gynae's in the fifth week
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    • 136 25 HAVE YOUR SAY. news@ newstoday.com.sg a This program gives me a good job with high salary. With my employment pass, I can apply for PR status here in Singapore. it i Kaythi Soe Myint >"*^ Although I only have 'O' level,this f_. 9 program gives me a great "w opportunity
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  • business
    • BUSINESS ROUNDUP
      • 115 26 Singapore-listed China Sun Bio-Chem Technology says it will be suspending production and sales at its ethanol plant in Shenyang during the Beijing Olympic Games until Sept 20. It says the closure is "motivated by the enhanced security measures" being taken by the authorities for
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      • 51 26 Inter-Roller Engineering is making its first foray into South America with a $7.g-mil-lion deal to design, supply and install a baggage handling system for Ecuador's New Quito International Airport. The new airport is being built on a mountain plateau and is slated for completion in August
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      • 49 26 ST Engineering's marine unit has landed a $i27.7-million contract to build a diving support vessel for foreign customers based in Singapore. The deal marks ST Marine's foray into the offshore oil and gas exploration, subsea sector. The contract is its second largest this year.
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      • 123 26 PetroVietnam Finance Corp (PVFC), Vietnam's largest financial company, plans to list its shares on the Singapore Stock Exchange later this year or in the first quarter next year, a company official said. "We are considering listing shares on the Singapore's stock market, but before PVFC
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    • 597 26  -  LOH CHEE KONG GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Maritime Port Authority most enterprise-friendly for second year running cheekong@mediacorp.com. sg GETTING to the top is easy but staying there is tough. Try telling that to the Maritime Port Authority (MPA), which has been named Singapore's most enterprise-friend-ly government agency
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    • 850 27  -  JACKYTAI XTRA ADVANTAGE SINGAPORE To stand out in the battle of the brands, here's what Spore companies can do news@newstoday.com .sg THE great military strategist, SunTzu, said that if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles and score
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    • 183 28 A yoga plaza, roof-top garden and spacious balconies with planter boxes for alfresco relaxation and dining not the usual features you'd expect in an Housing and Development Board (HDB) estate. United Engineers will be launching its first public housing project for sale next Wednesday, offering
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    • 244 28 AGENCIES BARCLAYS, the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest bank, said shareholders bought less than a fifth of the shares they were offered as part of the lender's £4.5-billion ($l2-billion) fundraising efforts. Shareholders agreed to buy 267 million shares in the sale, or just 19 per cent of the
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    • 153 28 THREE companies listed on Catalist are being upgraded to the Singapore Exchange's Mainboard. They are precision tools and parts-maker Micro-Me-chanics Holdings, design and exhibitions firm Kingsmen Creatives and grit-blasting specialist See Hup Seng. They have all received regulatory in-principle approval to make the switch.
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    • 573 28  -  ESTHER FUNG It wants your views on move to further liberalise listing rules esther@mediacorp.com. sg HAVING witnessed the recent mess on Wall Street, are Singapore investors ready for more risk? The Singapore Exchange (SGX) seems to think so, but first wants
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    • 866 29  - PROPERTY PLAY THE START OF ALL EVILS S KUMAR XTRA BANKING CRISIS Most of the economic disasters in the last 50 years were triggered by real estate woes LAST week, when the wise old man of Singapore banking, Mr Wee Cho Yaw, commented that this was the worst global banking
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  • weekend plus
    • ZHI CHA WITH A ZING
      • 105 30 Blk 56, Lengkok Bahru #01-443 Tel: 6474 091 1 (air con seating) or 6471 0253 (non-air con seating) Zi Yean's head chef Fok Wing Tin is a Hong Konger who used to work for the Tung Lok Group and Raffles Hotel. This experience shows in his food,
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      • 88 30 709 Geylang Road, Lorong 37 Tel: 6747 6631 or 9817 0006 Ya Kwang's foray into non-traditional dishes has paid off deliciously. The hand-made noodles fried with flower clams, garlic, Chinese wine and sliced chilli ($5) was a winner the springy noodles absorbed the hearty, savoury
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      • 104 30 Blk 89 lion Road, #01-137 Tel: 9736 4067 Siang Hee's butter cream prawns with pumpkin cream sauce ($l2 fora small serving) were a delight. Sweet sea prawns are battered and fried, then drenched in a sauce made with pureed pumpkin, butter and evaporated milk. The sauce also
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      • 117 30 Blk 69, #01-02 Seng Poh Lane Tel: 6221 0582 As its name suggests, Por Kee opened in 1996 and it's been drawing the crowds ever since. I tried the champagne pork ribs ($6 per piece). Each meaty rib was coated with a sticky, champagne-based sauce
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    • Article, Illustration
      959 30  -  JASON HO SOMETHING DISHY Zhi cha stalls are introducing fresh flavours to their menus and to diners' palates UNTIL recently, having a meal at a zhi cha outlet had been a simple affair I never had to think too hard about what to order. The sinful, unholy trinity
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  • weekendmakan
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      609 32  -  CHEN FEN DIVINE BITES food@newstoday.com.sg IT DID not look like much and was somewhat lumpy and misshapen. "Pop the whole thing in your mouth," I was told. So I did, rolling it around with my tongue. It was cool, pliant yet subtly resistant. As its skin dissolved,
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    • FOODNOTES
      • 138 34 THE STAR OF THE SHOW AND YOUR PIZZA Every dog has its day even if it's made of pizza crust. Thanks to Pizza Hut's new Starzbites Cheesy Extreme Pizza, this commonlyunloved bit may soon become the star of your meal. Instead of the usual doughy ring, the crust of the
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      • 171 34  -  SHERMAINE WONG If even the variety that a dim sum lunch offers you is beginning to seem boring, head to Si Chuan Dou Hua. The restaurant, which specialises in both Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine, recently launched an a la carte buffet called 1 00
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      570 34  -  AUDREY PHOON KYOTO-COSMO Finally, a restaurant-bar that serves food that's as good as its cocktails audrey@mediacorp.com.sg THE area's better known for cocktails than cuisine and the owners are people who made inroads into the food-and-beverage industry by opening a bar. So, it's no surprise that En Grill Mohammed
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  • weekendstyle
    • 1131 36  -  PEARLYN THAM PERSONALISED BEAUTY Some beauty brands go the extra mile to give customers exactly what they want IN LESS than half an hour, Shannon Chua whom I had met for the first time had learnt more about my dietary habits and music tastes than
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    • 168 38  -  CHARISSA TAN IF YOU'VE never heard of Jonathan Kelsey, it's about time that you do. One of London's most sought after shoe designers, Kelsey has chalked up a remarkable CV designing for Cacharel and working on catwalk projects with Giles Deacon and
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    • 702 38  -  PEARLYN THAM MAN OF THE CLOTH Plastic surgeon and team create clothing from revolutionary rabric that treats skin problems pearlyn@mediacorp.com.sg HE'S the man with a contrarian view. While most skincare experts and plastic surgeons would advise you to wear a sunscreen diligently, Dr Stephen Mulholland thinks
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    • ATAGLANCE
      • 86 38 Enjoy what's left of the summer season before Fall trends dictate that you cover up in the name of fashion. Until then, Dorothy Perkins makes dressing up a breeze with its flowy mini and maxi dresses. Its summer collection is also rich in denim, reinterpreted, for example, in
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        73 38 Flaunt a wrist-ful of colour this season with Tommy Hilfiger's Basel 2008 watch collection, which revolves around the use of striking colour combinations. The signature piece ($299), shown here, is a water-resistant sports chronograph for men. While the watch case features masculine grey ion-plating, its face and stitched
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      • 79 38 Even laptops have seasonal wardrobes. The Flickz summer collection of notebook sleeves ($69.90 each) lets you play dress-up with your laptop and comes in four base colours of black, white, pink and yellow. Each notebook sleeve which looks like a gigantic clutch purse has a detachable,
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        74 38 Roses are red, violets are blue and Valentino's signature flower inspirations will make fashionistas go green with envy. For Fall-Winter, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli have created fresh bag designs based on flowers and their petals and veins. There's the Rosier model, covered in taffeta roses;
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    • 461 39  -  CHIA EE KHIM SKIN SOLUTIONS With the help of a new cream and chromatherapy, your skin could be on its way to perfection eekhim@mediacorp.com.sg AN AUNT of mine likes to point out my facial flaws every time we meet. "You have crow's feet," she would say.
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    • 557 39  -  PEARLYN THAM YOU don't have to be a 1.75 m tall Venezuelan beauty to be called beautiful. In fact, you don't even have to be beautiful by most conventional standards to take part in the inaugural Watsons YOU Awards. Cathy Yeap, managing
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  • weekendspeed
    • 643 40  -  DERRYN WONG MORE SHOW, MORE GO Volkswagen ups the ante with a 300bhp version of the Passat news@newstoday.com.sg THE entry-level Volkswagen Passat is an accomplished enough mid-sized saloon. With a 1.8-litre power unit, its performance won't exactly set your pants on fire, but neither is
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    • 321 40  -  JUSTIN LEE SHOPPING for a car on a budget often leads you to something small and nasty. Look hard enough and you'll find some credible cars at the lower end of the market though, one of which is the new Kia Cerato Sports hatchback. This
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