The Straits Times, 25 January 2007

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 12 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 2007 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 868 1  -  Peh Shing Huei Better to do it sooner and move on, says Mr Lee; he also gives strong indication of a rise in employers' CPF contribution TAKE your medicine sooner, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. By that he meant
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  • 580 1  -  AZHAR GHANI By Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta INDONESIA has banned the export of some sand and soil products in what it says are efforts to prevent further damage to its environment and to protect its boundaries. The move would cut
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1095 1  -  Ben Nadarajan AT THE recent opening of the new legal year, Attorney-General Qiao Hick Tin drew attention to the problem of Singapore's vanishing young lawyers. He referred to the number who drop out of practice each year, and said it might be
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    • 387 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 From hero to zero Asia 6-19 Youth Challenge World 20-26 management committee Review.. ...28-30 member's admiration for PY| "31 the charity's founder Vincent Lam turns to SECTION TWO disappointment after Home Hl-H8 questions over his pay. Forum H9 PAGE H2 Sports HlO-Hl3 Obituaries Hl3-Hl4 T
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  • PRIME
    • 654 3  -  Arlina Arshad YOUTH CHALLENGE PROBE Unauthorised withdrawal believed to be for salaries; police report made signed from the charity on Monday, about the matter. On Tuesday, the Commissioner of Charities (COC) released its findings of a five-month-long probe into Youth Challenge. The report found
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    • 616 3  -  Selina Lum 'ONE-EYED DRAGON' TELLS JUDGE: Accused gunman says wife has received SMSes threatening her life if he escapes gallows THE accused gunman dubbed the "One-Eyed Dragon" created a stir in court yesterday when he urged the High Court judge presiding over his trial to hang
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    • 376 4  -  Krist 800 By GENTING International, which is building its $5.2 billion Resorts World at Sentosa, has been quizzed by the Government over its latest partnership with Macau's casino mogul Stanley Ho. According to reliable sources, news that the Malaysian operator was
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    • 605 4  -  Derwin Pereira He outlines energy initiatives to protect environment in bid to rescue fading legacy US PRESIDENT George W. Bush, facing a hostile Congress and a sceptical nation, played the green card in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night
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    • 59 4 Singapore Budget Spending boost on the cards Economists expect public spending to soar as the government ramps up its development expenditure and strengthens the social safety net Big win Buys Rolex watch with 4-D winnings Big loss Robbers tie him up steal it Big deal! It's no big deal, he
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  • ASIA
    • 694 6 ASSOCIATED PRESS Groupers and other reef fish are fast shrinking in numbers due to high consumer demand and destructive fishing practices KUDAT (SABAH) RISING demand for live reef fish by seafood-hun-gry diners in Greater China has, for the first time, been shown to have decimated
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    • 202 6 ASSOCIATED PRESS REEF fish which are caught mostly by small-time fishermen who sometimes use cyanide to stun their catches are prized mostly because they are cooked live. Traders are careful to ensure that they arrive that way, packing them in bags of water and placing them in white
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    • CHINA
      • 539 8  -  Tracy Quek Official's expulsion on graft charge hints at similar fate for former Shanghai party boss FHE expulsion of China's former statistics Bureau chief Qiu Xiaohua :rom the Communist Party suggests :hat a similar fate awaits disgraced shanghai party boss Chen Liangyu, jay analysts.
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      • 53 8 Dismantled neon signs advertising adult services are scattered on the grounds of a Hong Kong police station as the territory cracks down on vice. Police started closing down brothels yesterday as part of an overall operation to eradicate prostitution in the more notorious areas of Hong
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      • 316 8 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing CHINA has suspended the production and sale of a blood-based drug used to treat immune system deficiencies after users were feared to have contracted hepatitis C. The Health Ministry and the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)
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      • 460 11  -  Clarissa Oon President to visit 8 countries as China continues to woo resource-rich region CHINA steps up its courtship of Africa with President Hu Jintao scheduled to visit the re-source-rich continent later this month. It will be his third trip there
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      • Article, Illustration
        102 11 This French-style building in Tianjin, northern China, is literally a china house. Owner Zhang Lianzhi has decorated the exterior with more than two million pieces of Chinese porcelain. The once-abandoned house was bought by Mr Zhang, an avid collector of Chinese porcelain. He is also the first
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      • 372 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS Shanghai CHINA has sent men into orbit and launched dozens of satellites, but its test of a satellite-killing weapon is shaking up perceptions about where the Chinese space programme is headed. The test, confirmed by Beijing on Tuesday after nearly
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      • 273 11 REUTERS Beijing CHINESE President Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet, state media reported yesterday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's unruly online population. Mr Hu, who heads the ruling Communist Party, was speaking to the party's
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 533 12  -  Kwan Weng Kin It insists revisions, before PM Wen's visit, not made under pressure TOKYO'S controversial Yasukuni shrine has revised some references to China in its war-related museum, but denied doing so under pressure. The revisions came ahead of a visit here by Chinese Premier
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      • 211 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS A JAPANESE nationalist filmmaker yesterday said he was working on a documentary to disprove the 1937 Nanjing massacre occurred. The movie, The Truth About Nanking, will be based on testimony from Japanese veterans, archival footage and documents that proponents say
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      • 197 12  -  KARAMJIT KAUR A FALSE alarm forced a Singapore Airlines aircraft to make an emergency landing in Beijing yesterday, but all crew members and passengers were unhurt. The Singapore-bound SQ 811 returned to Beijing at 10.40 am almost two hours after take-off after a
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      • ASIA QUICKLY
        • 119 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China is cutting taxes on the poor and stepping up efforts to crack down on tax evasion by the rich to narrow a widening income gap, the commissioner of the State Administration of Taxation, Mr Xie Xuren said yesterday. Tax revenues soared
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        • 106 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have held talks by telephone about the North Korean nuclear issue and China-US ties, says the Foreign Ministry. The call took place on Tuesday evening, Beijing time, amid a
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        • 88 12 SINGAPORE: Singapore's Foreign Ministry is working with Hard Rock Cafe Singapore to organise an Asean Music Festival, Asean Rocks!!, to launch the Republic's celebration of Asean's 40th anniversary next year, the ministry said in a statement yesterday. Bands from the 10 Asean countries will be
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        • 107 12 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE NEW DELHI: Mrs Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress party, is the country's favourite politician, according to an opinion poll published yesterday in the Hindustan Times. The poll also found that most Indians think Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is doing a good
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 497 13  -  Ravi Velloor Spores neutral image helped corporation win right to manage strategic port, says George Yeo SINGAPORE'S perceived role as a neutral country helped PSA Corp win the right to operate the strategic deep-water port of Gwadar in Pakistan. "I have been informed that
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      • 366 13  -  RAVI VELLOOR New Delhi INDIA and Russia have unveiled new deals on high-tech defence cooperation, signalling that South Asia's dominant power will continue to depend on the Soviet Union's successor state to be its principal weapons supplier for another decade. Hours before Russian President
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 675 14  -  Nirmal Ghosh Interim cert expires tomorrow, and govt wants to see repair plan before renewal FHE future of Thailand's Suvarnabhumi International Airport remained cloudy yesterday as reports surfaced that cracks in the taxiways had cast doubt Dyer its safety certification. The airport
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      • 390 14 SINGAPORE yesterday explained why it had to issue a public response to the Thai army chief's comments over fears that the Republic was eavesdropping on them. The Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement: "The Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs had
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      • 296 14 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Bangkok THAI Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont told foreign investors yesterday that the country still wants their business despite moves earlier this month to tighten investment rules. He defended the government's proposal to close a widely exploited legal loophole, which would effectively
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA/MALAYSIA
      • 451 17  -  Reme Ahmad By n /r 1 Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur RESPECTED academic Syed Hussein Alatas, who taught at the National University of Singapore for more than a decade, died of a heart attack on Tuesday evening in Kuala Lumpur. The 78-year-old was head
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      • 729 17  -  AZHAR GHANI NEWS ANALYSIS Concern about political future leads to unprecedented attack on critics and other moves INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would trump any challenger if an election were to be called now, going by recent polls. Results of a nationwide survey done in December
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 582 18  -  Carolyn Hong Finger-pointing over racial riots and other inflammatory sentences removed A NEW guidebook on race relations has been produced for the mandatory university course on unity, after the first attempt provoked a storm of controversy for its finger-pointing. Higher Education Minister
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      • 388 18 NEW STRAITS TIMES Alor Gajah (Malacca) A SMALL-TOWN woman has been producing colourful crystal-like stones from beneath her toenails, creating a stir among villagers. People came from afar to gawk at Ms Siti Suhana Saadon, 23, after a local broadcaster featured her
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      • 398 18  -  Reme Ahmad By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur MUSLIMS must have zero tolerance for extremist voices and promote Islam's modern face instead, said Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. The biggest grouping of Muslim countries which Malaysia chairs the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC)
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      • 87 18 REUTERS Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA has found new ways to crack down on work-shy civil servants: naming in the media those who fail to show up for work and checking the homes of those who call in sick. The plan to publish the names of
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  • WORLD
    • 885 19  -  Derwin Pereira NEWS ANALYSIS Lame-duck leader unlikely to get support for proposals in national address IT WAS a night for President George W. Bush to win over sceptical Americans. But the odds were stacked against him even before his State of the Union
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    • 225 19 REUTERS Washington US PRESIDENT George W. Bush warned of an "escalating danger" from Shi'ite extremists that he said was as big a threat to the US as Al-Qaeda. In his annual State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday night, he
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      228 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS US President George W. Bush touched on a host of issues in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Here is what he had to say: Iraq Urged Americans to be patient with the plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq,
      AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  228 words
    • 771 20 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS But business leaders at Davos forum call for stronger policy action on climate change Davos LEADING economists yesterday cautiously welcomed US President George W. Bush's proposals for a long-term cut in US petrol consumption, as business leaders meeting
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    • 322 20 NEW YORK TIMES MISSING at Davos this year are regulars such as former US president Bill Clinton, as well as marquee names from the Bush administration. But on the list are Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of Vietnam, the newest member of the club
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    • 772 21  -  Jonathan Eyal Violence in Beirut gives added urgency to bid to raise funds for war-torn nation SENIOR diplomats are gathering today in Paris to mobilise financial support for the reconstruction of Lebanon. Their meeting could not :ome any sooner, for the very sxistence of
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    • 316 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Abuja (Nigeria) PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria has appealed to Singapore for clemency on behali of a Nigerian sentenced to death for drug trafficking. "President Olusegun Obasanjo has soughi the personal intervention of the Prime Minister of Singapore,
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 72 21 ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU: A US Air Force AC-130 gunship has launched a second air strike against suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia, the Washington Post reported yesterday, citing unidentified US officials. No confirmation of Monday's reported attack was immediately available. An AC-130 gunship two weeks ago
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      • 75 21 REUTERS JERUSALEM: Israeli President Moshe Katsav was under growing pressure yesterday to resign after prosecutors said they would charge him with rape and other sexual offences against female employees. Mr Katsav has denied any wrongdoing. Local media reports said he was likely to announce an
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      • 103 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PARIS: Smart sniffer robots able to detect chemical leaks, drugs or explosives are set to take a step closer to reality, thanks to a new algorithm, according to scientists. The programme, called Infotaxis, takes its cue from wildlife which rely on levels of
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    • 417 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS Ahmadinejad says 'wise' Americans would not let Bush attack his country Teheran THE US is incapable of inflicting "serious damage" on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, as a US Navy carrier group steamed towards his country in what Washington
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    • 627 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES American foster parents, who cared for girl from birth, lose custody Nashville ALMOST eight years after a Chinese couple living in the US placed their daughter in what they thought was temporary foster care, a court has
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 256 25 REUTERS SHAMED British TV star Jade Goody is considering a fence-mending trip to India after her treatment of a Bollywood actress on Celebrity Big Brother sparked an international uproar. Ms Goody visited the Indian High Commission in London on Tuesday to pick up a
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      • 225 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A MAN who spent almost 22 years in a US prison for a rape he did not commit knows what he will do first when he leaves his cell for good. Mr Pete Williams will draw himself a hot
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      • 191 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE THE veteran CIA spy who helped plan the break-in at Washington's Watergate complex which brought down President Richard Nixon has died in Miami. Mr Howard Hunt, 88, had reportedly battled pneumonia. He plotted the night-time burglary on June 17, 1972 at the
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    • 365 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Sydney AN AUSTRALIAN diver has described from his hospital bed how he fought free from the jaws of a great white shark which had "swallowed" his head. The huge predator's bite crushed Mr Eric Nerhus's face mask, broke his nose
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    • 29 19 Ahmadinejad hits back As a US Navy carrier group heads his way, Iranian President says the US won't be able to inflict 'serious damage' on his country. PAGE 23
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  • REVIEW
    • 439 27 NATIONAL Development Minister Man Bow Tan has timed well an important administrative intervention in the lusty property market. The industry and transactors who pay attention to trends have relied mainly on the quarterly private property price index, which gives a snapshot of price movements crunched
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    • 592 27 By Liv Long Chang THE island state of Singapore is changing. About five years ago, it was in recession. Business enterprises were in crisis mode. They cut salaries and laid off employees, but the people coped with it calmly. Then, Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
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    • 1653 27  -  George Friedman SPACE AND SEA-LANE CONTROL IN CHINESE STRATEGY AVIATION Week Space Technology magazine, citing US intelligence sources, has reported that China has successfully tested an anti-satellite (Asat) system. The report, confirmed by US officials, says a missile was launched, which intercepted and destroyed
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    • 721 28  -  Lv Yiyi ANTI-SATELLITE MISSILE TEST CHINA'S successful test of an an-ti-satellite missile earlier this month received wide coverage in the international media. Several countries, including the United States, Australia, Japan and Britain, expressed deep concern about the test and demanded explanations from China. Before
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    • 717 28  -  Deep K. Datta-Ray CHINA'S anti-satellite missile test might appear to mark a dramatic volte face from its decade-long denunciation of the weaponisation of space. But the current controversy would never have occurred if the US had heeded international calls China's voice the
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    • 1199 29  -  Ooi Kee Beng This is the third instalment of five excerpts from The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail And His Time SHORTLY before Independence Day, the Tunku asked Ismail to become Malaya's first ambassador to the United States of America. He also
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    • 26 27 Frontier protection China's recent anti-satellite missile test shows its determination not to be at the mercy of other countries. PAGE 29 PUNCHLINES Asian seas oepura Bjr
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  • HOME
    • 500 32  -  Selina Lum »TRIAL OF 'ONE-EYED DRAGON' Accused: He warned me to watch out; failed negotiation led to death By TAN Chor Jin's version of the events that took place on the morning of Feb 15 last year, when he is alleged
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    • 790 33  -  Yap Su-Yin YOUTH CHALLENGE PROBE Charity won't stop foreign aid trips, activities for elderly WITH or without an executive president, Youth Challenge is going ahead with events on its calendar including lunches for some elderly folk to celebrate the Chinese
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    • 806 33  -  Theresa Tan By THE voice at the other end of the line was one that Mr Michael Lim had not heard for some 20 years. It was Mr Vincent Lam, founder of Youth Challenge which was being probed by the Commissioner of Charities (COC).
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    • 189 33 Members of the current Youth Challenge management committee, which took office last October: President Looi Teck Kheong The 42-year-old lawyer, who is married and has four children, has no prior experience in charity work. First vice-president Tang Wing Fai The 3 6-year-old runs his own marketing business.
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    • 638 34  -  Teh Joo Lin Overall crime rate reverses 4-year rise; cellphone thefts also fall THERE has been a drop in youth crime about 30 per cent from 2005 to last year. Youths still account for one in five people caught last year. Aged seven to
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    • 780 34  -  Khushwant Singh By AMONG generally falling crime rates in Singapore last year, one figure stood out: a doubling in the number of metal thefts. There were 1,092 metal thefts last year, up from 526 the year before, with copper items making up the
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    • SPORt IRIPARI ISM FORUM
      • 1197 35  -  Sue-Ann Chia The more the goodies, the higher the taxes, says PM By AN INAUGURAL forum on tripartism yesterday turned into a dialogue on the impending goods and services tax (GST) hike. Several unionists seized the opportunity to quiz Prime Minister Lee
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      • 414 35  -  Ken Kwek By IT IS Singapore's secret, and cannot be easily copied. Thanks to the country's history of cooperation among the labour unions, the Government and employers, a unique structure has emerged: tripartism. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday lauded it as
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      • 541 35  -  Li Xueying By A FIVE-YEAR target has been set for Singapore to make "significant progress" in tackling the problem of jobless older workers. On the horizon: even a law making it compulsory for companies to re-hire workers after the retirement age of
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      • 685 36  -  Ken Kwek Change needed as it will no longer be a one-off payment, says PM THE criteria for the Workfare bonus will be refined and are likely to require that workers also contribute to their Medisave account. The reason for doing it is
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      • 666 36  - Cabbies can earn more by getting creative Zakir Hussain By THE future looks tough for taxi drivers, but they can earn more by adding value to their services, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. They could double as tourist guides or ferry medical tourists, he suggested. Cabbies have to
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      • 410 36  -  ZAKIR HUSSAIN A COMMONLY heard argument: Keep foreign workers out and Singaporeans will have jobs. But that is simply not true, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. The reality was that if foreign workers were kept out, it did not mean
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    • 295 37  -  Elena Chong By A WOMAN accused of stomping on the roof of a car belonging to the man who was about to repossess hers yesterday denied causing the damage he claimed. Wong Nguek Chin had been taken to court by repo man See Song
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    • 823 37  -  Chong Chee Kin Durai wants court say FORMER NKF chief executive T.T. Durai yesterday responded to the move by former board members Richard Yong and Loo Say San to name him as a third party to the suit filed by the new NKF board.
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    • 306 37  -  ELENA CHONG A SHORT-SIGHTED motorcyclist who took to the road without his glasses and fatally knocked down a pedestrian was yesterday fined $6,000 and banned from driving all vehicles for three years. Syed Kassim Samsu Ghanny, a 33-year-old stall assistant, admitted to causing
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    • 359 39  -  David Boey New outfit vital as army's role widens to include protection of key installations, urban warfare and peacekeeping missions By Defence Correspondent ALL new recruits going in for Basic Military Training (BMT) are now being issued with new personal equipment in the army's biggest
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    • 374 39  -  Melissa Tan By CHINATOWN is painting the town red with Chinese New Year celebrations, spending a record $1.8 million to usher in the Year of the Pig. For five weeks from Saturday, an expected 1.4 million visitors will be treated to acrobatic displays, lion dances
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    • QUICK NEWS
      • 137 39 THE Singapore team that helped to search for the flight recorders of the missing Adam Air jetliner returned home yesterday evening. The 17-year-old Boeing 737-400 vanished without a trace on New Year's Day with 102 people on board. It has not been found. The
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      • 72 39 SINGAPORE swimming legend Ang Peng Siong is part oi a series of events this year targeted at getting more adults to take up swimming. For example the Asia Pacific Masters swimming mccl from Feb 9 to 11 welcomes participants aged 25 and above to compete
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      • 147 39 JUST one in five people here has heard of genetic modification (GM) and knows what it entails, a survey shows. The survey of 600 people, carried out in May last year, showed that awareness of the issue had grown only marginally since the last
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  • FORUM
    • 453 40  -  Patrick Tan Siong Kuan AS PARLIAMENT prepares for the upcoming Budget Debate, I appeal to the Government to seriously consider abolishing the service charge that hotels and restaurants levy on food and beverages. With the service charge fixed at 10 per cent by law,
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    • 223 40  -  Kiera Chua XingDe (Miss) THE amendment to the Children Development Co-savings Bill that allows a single mother paid maternity leave, if she marries the father of her child within three months of its birth, is ill-conceived. If the Government was concerned about facilitating the
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    • 207 40  -  Edmund Lim Wee Kiat I AM delighted that the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports will be giving voluntary welfare organisations an extra $11 million to increase the salaries of social workers ("Social workers to get pay rise"; ST, Jan 21). Diligent and
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    • 191 40  -  Ann Wee (Mrs) THE special report on social workers in the Saturday section of The Straits Times on Jan 20 was heart-warming for members of the profession, and gave greatly appreciated recognition. I would like to clarify a statement I made which might seem
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    • 367 40  -  Gurmit Kaur Sroya (Mrs) I REFER to the letter, "No go for employer when maid refused to go" (ST, Jan 19), by Ms Phyllis Christe. Ms Christe should have returned her maid to the agency instead of taking action of her own. She must
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    • 152 40  -  Liang Eng Hwa Dr Teo Ho Pin Dr Vivian Balakrishnan WE REFER to the letter, "Will Bukit Panjang residents get a stadium?" (ST, Jan 20), by Mr Ho Khin Peng. A sports complex will certainly be built in Bukit Panjang Town. In addition
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    • 336 40  -  Netina Tan Chiew Pheng (Ms) WHAT is the rationale behind the Ministry of Education (MOE) move to train more teachers to help smart kids? (ST, Jan 18). Why are we spending more time and resources on kids who are already privileged academicaliy?
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    • 189 40  -  Wendy Low (Ms) I REFER to Ms Ong Seok Bee's letter, "Two women slipped on Vivo City stairs and fell" (ST, Jan 23). We are very sorry she was hurt due to the low lighting level and have contacted her to offer our assistance.
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    • 198 40  -  Teo Chwee Tee (Ms) I AGREE fully with Minister Lim Boon Heng that we must all work for as long as we can. But will employers like the Government and NTUC organisations give senior citizens a chance? I was retired in 2005 at
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    • 184 40 ■iEEmiiHfiiii Floodgate at Chinatown MRT station Confused over the Conundrum Caused by Canadian tax? Frustrated in Regards if you're a Resident or non-Resident XO Dl OICCI ll (for tax purposes)? m REDEV sponsored a Canadian tax professional to talk f K/\ITI IQToIq about individuals tax issues on income and capital
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 30 40 Letters to Forum Editor Please include your full name, address and a telephone contact number. For women, indicate Miss, Mrs, Mdm or Ms. Send your letters via e-mail to stforum@sph.com.sg
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    • 97 40 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.asial. com.sg/forum Access to letters online is free. Replace HDB ban with rules to enforce responsible ownership of cats Why HDB should ban cat and dog ownership in flats Alternative media sources call for critical and discerning readers Corporate-tax cut overplayed as
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  • SPORTS
    • 855 41  -  Marc Lim PROJECT 0812 SNOC backs faith with $7 million for squad preparing for the Beijing Games SINGAPORE'S search for that elusive second Olympic medal lies in the hands of 22 athletes. And to ensure that they get the best preparation money can
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    • 439 41  -  Chan Vi Shen By SINGAPORE swimmer Tao Li splashed her way to gold in the women's 50 metres butterfly at last month's Asian Games. But, come next year's Beijing Olympics, she is unlikely to make a similar impact, with the mighty
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    • 785 42 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SOCCER There's also a public show of conciliation with Shevchenko, after Chelsea beat Wycombe London IS JOSE Mourinho attempting to save his Chelsea career? Yesterday, the manager, who has been embroiled in a dispute with Chelsea's billionaire-owner
      ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE; I _ ; __1 I PHOTOS: AP, REUTERS  -  785 words
    • 320 42 AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE Watford WATFORD have the movie, Rocky, to thank for their second win in the Premiership. The Hornets beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 at Vicarage Road on Tuesday to breathe life into their battle for Premiership survival. Manager Adrian Boothroyd yesterday revealed the
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    • 143 42 dan United 2418 3 3 5318 57 Ihelsea 2415 6 3 4119 51 .iverpool 2414 4 6 3716 46 Irsenal 2413 6 5 45 20 45 iolton 2412 4 8 28 26 40 'ortsmouth 24 10 7 7 34 24 37 Lverton 24 9 8 ***** 35 teading 2410
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    • 265 42 ASSOCIATED PRESS London GOOD news for Chelsea skipper John Terry could be back in action next week. Sidelined with a calf injury following back surgery, the England defender has rejoined the squad in training, and may be fit enough to face
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    • 289 42 London SHEFFIELD Wednesday have accused Charlton Athletic of using underhand tactics in an attempt to sign Madjid Bougherra, the Championship side's Algerian defender. Wednesday lashed out after the Premiership club put in an offer far less than their £3 million (Ss9 million)
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    • 220 42 SHEFFIELD United's Keith Gillespie was charged with violent conduct by the Football Association on Tuesday. The 31-year-old winger was sent off in Saturday's 1-3 defeat by Reading, for throwing an arm into the face of Reading winger Stephen Hunt. He was slapped with an automatic three-match
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    • 376 42 London GABRIEL Heinze could use a little-known clause in Fifa's new transfer regulations, and become the first Premiership player to buy out his contract. The Manchester United defender will be entitled to serve 15 days' notice on his contract in June.
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    • 596 43  -  Nicholas Fang »SOCCER Ref said Singapore skipper was booked under 'ungentlemanly conduct' rule By ALL Singapore skipper Aide Iskandar knows is that he was sent off in the Asean Championship semi-final against Malaysia on Tuesday. The reason for the dismissal baffles him. And checks with
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    • 175 43 SOME 30,000 fans turned out for the first leg of the Asean Football Championship semi-final between Singapore and Malaysia at the Shah Alam Stadium on Tuesday. The Football Association of Singapore hopes Lions fans will turn up in similar numbers for
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    • 262 43 Hanoi THAILAND took a huge step towards the Asean Football Championship final, after beating Vietnam 2-0 yesterday in the first leg of the semi-final. A capacity crowd at the My Dinh Stadium had hoped that Vietnam would maintain their record of never having lost to
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    • 163 43 BASKETBALL THE Singapore Slingers are clinging on to the final play-off spot of the Austral-ia-based National Basketball League, after suffering their third straight loss. They fell to a 100-103 away defeat by the New Zealand Breakers yesterday. With 10 wins and 17 losses, the Slingers
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    • 358 43 BLOOMBERG, ASSOCIATED PRESS Madrid REAL Madrid will sign the most lucrative jersey sponsorship agreement in soccer next week, countering forecasts that David Beckham's departure would dent sales. The world's biggest soccer club, by revenue, has lined up a successor to Benq Corp, Real
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 59 43 LONDON: Manchester United will discover today whether Bayern Munich will accept a £20 million (Ss6o million) bid for Owen Hargreaves, the Sun reported. Bayern's board could not agree on whether to allow the 26-year-old England midfielder to leave. However, the German club's coach Felix Magath told
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      • 67 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON: Arsenal striker Robin van Persic will be out of action for at least six weeks, after breaking a bone in his right foot while scoring in Sunday's 2-1 Premiership victory over Manchester United. The Dutch striker broke the fifth metatarsal in
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      • 63 43 LONDON: Middlesbrough defender Jonathan Woodgate has not ruled out a return to Real Madrid. The Englishman, on loan from the Spanish side, had a miserable, inju-ry-plagued time in Spain. He joined Middlesbrough at the start of the season. He must now wait until the end
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      • 50 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON: The Phoenix Suns thrashed the Washington Wizards 127-105 on Tuesday, in a match-up between the National Basketball Association's two highest-scoring teams. Reigning Most Valuable Player, Steve Nash, scored 27 points on 11-of-13 shooting and added 14 assists in the Suns' 14th straight win.
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      • 62 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGIUM: Former cycling world champion Johan Museeuw, considered the greatest one-day cyclist over the past 15 years, admitted on Tuesday that he had resorted to doping in the last year of his career. He and six other riders must stand trial later this
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      • 79 43 ASSOCIATED PRESS CUTTACK (India): The West Indies dismissed India for 189 in 48.2 overs to seize control of the second limited-overs cricket international yesterday. Reserve wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik's 63, as well as his 62-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Ajit Agarkar (40), saved India the
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    • 355 44  -  Jeanette Wang BADMINTON But Singaporean is pleased with his showing against China's world No.l HE MAY have crashed out in the opening round of the Korea Open in Seoul yesterday. But Singapore's Kendrick Lee cherished the experience all 27 minutes of it. For Lee, ranked 26th,
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    • 534 44 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE »TENNIS Melbourne WORLD No 2 Rafael Nadal was dumped out of the Australian Open by red-hot Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in the quarter-finals yesterday. The 10th seed won 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 and will play German 12th seed Tommy Haas in tomorrow's semi-final. Gonzalez's explosive tennis
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    • 151 44 BLOOMBERG NEWS WORLD No 1 Justine Henin-Hardenne is splitting from her husband. She had pulled out of the Australian Open three weeks ago, citing personal reasons. The Belgian said on her website that she has separated from Pierre-Yves Hardenne, whom she married in November 2002. Said
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    • 526 44 BADMINTON Korea Open, Ist rd Men's singles: Lin Dan (Chn) bt Kendrick Lee (Sin) 21-14 21-16, PrzemyslawWacha (Pol) bt Bjoern Joppien (Ger) 18-21 21-17 21-16, Roslin Hashim (Mas) bt Kenneth Jonassen (Den) 21-18 13-21 22-20, Roman Spitko (Ger) bt Eric Pang (Ned) 21-16 21-19, Chen Yu (Chn) w/o Peter
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    • 43 43 TV times GOLF: Abu Dhabi C'ship: Day 1 (Live, Ch2l,spm). Buick International: Day 1 (Live, Ch22, tomorrow, 4am). TENNIS: Australian Open, s-finals: Women's singles (10.30 am). Men's singles (4.30pm) Live, Ch24. Event HOCKEY: SHF League, Boys' U-18: Temasek v Barkerites-JJC (Delta Stadium, 7pm).
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  • OBITUARIES
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      113 44 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am, there ye
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      53 44 In Loving Memory Of LOW SAM MOEY Departed 25 Jan 1998 Today recalls sad memories, Of a dear mother gone to rest, And the one who thinks of her today Is the one who loves her best. Always remembered by Son Roger Wee, Daughters, Daughter--In-Law, Sons-In-Law, Grandchild Nicole Wee, Grandchildren
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      78 44 1st Anniversary Thalai Thevasam N. DARAMALINGAM (Sri Kaliamman Pillaigal) Departed: 24/12/2005 In our hearts you live And always will in memory Deeply missed by: Wife K.Veerammal Sons D.Theepan D.Govind Sisters, brother, nephews, nieces, in-laws and loved ones Morning prayers: 27 Jan 07 (Sat) 8 to 10am At Blk 102, Bt
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      50 44 JUSTINE DE LAURE Age: 27 Was called home to be with the Lord on 25 January 2006. 1st anniversary mass at Church of the Holy Spirit this evening at 6pm. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by Parents, Brothers, Sister-in-law, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins Colleagues at the Singapore Police Force and Friends.
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      41 44 The Family of the Late GOH KIM LIEW Departed on 19 January 2007 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      35 45 NINTH ANNIVERSARY IN FONDEST LOVING MEMORY OF JEREMY CHIA KIN LOONG Departed on 25 January 1998 Gone from our lives but not from our hearts. Dearly missed forever cherished by Mum, Dad, Relatives and Friends.
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      95 45 LEEAYELUAN I Age: 76 passed away peacefully on 24 January 2007, leaving behind loved ones. (Husband: Soh Cheng Hwa, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Soh Chiew Peng Peter Sim Choon May Marilyn Soh Yew Peng Huang Shu-Ya Soh Han Peng Alan Chan Pheck Li Mary Soh Kah Peng Michael Sum Siow Yin
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      172 45 \Y**' "I know there is someone who will come at last 'Vl to my defense. I will see God.. J will see Him with my .1 own eyes." Job 18:25-26 j I STEPHEN CHAN TIOW JOO Age: 60 was called home to be with the Lord on 24 January 2007.
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      59 45 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to The Family Of the Late MICHAEL J SACK Departed on 24 January 2007 From: The Management and Staff of Chartered Semiconductor Mfg Ltd Wake is held at Singapore Casket, Emerald Room, Level 3. Cortege leaves on 26/01/07 at 12.45pm for Mandai Crematorium Hall
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      161 45 "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. '-T? He makes me lie down in green pastures. Psalm 23 I MIMI MAH CHENG LIT Age: 94 Called home to be with the Lord on 23 January 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Loh
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      33 45 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The family of the late CHEW KOH Departed on 21 January 2007 From: Jan Chew Chuie Sian The Management Staff of Beijing Yoku S.G.C Technology Co; Ltd
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      99 45 'ThelOßDismysheplierfi'.lhaxveivrythinglnmt.himiflgo 1 through the deepest darkness. I will not be afraid. 10RD, for You are ttith me." Psalms 23 STUDINSON VINCENT Age: 56 was called home lo be with the Lord on 24 lan 2007 leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Beatris Siudinson Father: Kurian Vincent Daughters: Sons-in-law: Hejina Studinson Seelan
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      30 45 In Loving Memory Of Our Dearest Parents S.MURUGESU M.RAJAMANIE Departed 25/1/96 Departed 17/2/88 DearAppa &Amma We love you miss you both Always remembered by children, grandchildren, relatives loved ones W
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      175 45 *p°*» &»**g\ goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell In the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6 MDM TAN SAIK TIEN Age: 81 was called home to be with the Lord on 23 January 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered
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      65 45 3b MATUK RAI Age: 67 i Departed on 24 lan 07 IAWWiWg behind: Wife: Nirmala Rai Son:Susheclßai Daughters: Sarita Rai Pratibha Rai Son-in-law: Dayanand Rai Brothers: Bhaewan Rai Cinnja Rai larinan an Rai all relatives and loved ones. Body Is resting at Blk 144, #04-547 Kivervale Dr. Cortege leaves today
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      183 45 KOH KOON GAK alias KOH KOON GEK Age: 74 passed away peacefully on 24 January 2007. Dearly missed and fondly retnembered by loved ones. Husband Tan Lye Soon, Stewart Sons Daughters-In-Law: Tan Swee Song, James Sum Lai Fong Tan Swee Liang, Eric Chia Hwee Tian, Agnes Daughters Sons-In-Law: Tan Mvi
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      87 45 TAY TOH TONG Age: 69 was called home to be with the Lord on 23 January 2007. Always cherished by loved ones. Wife: Ng Lwee Hng Son: Daughter-in-law: leek Lay Lulu Daughter: Son-in-law: Minny Patrick Grandchildren: Lyndon Randall Terisse and all relatives and friends. Wake held at Singapore Casket, Pearl
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      37 45 Ist Anniversary In Ix>ving Memory of our Beloved Mother TAN SEOW LUN Departed on 25th lan 2006 Today recalls sad memories. Of our dearest Mother gone to rest. Dearly missed andfotully rememberetl always, :y By loved ones
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      • 5952 46 TRANSACTION DATE: JAN 24, 2007 52-WEEK HIGH LOW IEL CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +OR'VOL 'OOO DAY HIGH LOW NEI P/E M CAP SMIL 3.5 1 5716 LstSoftware 11.5 6 3148 8Telecom 34.5 22 5834 A-Sonic 101 94 6389 ABFSGBondETF 35.5 17 1500 ACEDynamics 25 15.5
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    • 484 47 REUTERS Majority of 1,100 CEOs in PwC survey expect sales to grow in next 12 months Davos (Switzerland) WITH the global economy enjoying one of its longest periods of growth since World War 11, confidence about corporate revenues is running at record levels,
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    • 532 47 NEW YORK TIMES San Francisco AFTER years of losses, Sun Microsystems returned to profitability in the last quarter, while Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) swung to a loss, pointing to a bumpy road to recovery in the industry. "It's great
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    • 346 47 REUTERS San Francisco YAHOO posted a 61 per cent drop in quarterly profit, weighed down by option expenses, but the stock rose on news that a new Web search advertising system was nearly complete. Shares in the Internet media firm rose
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    • 39 47 REUTERS Yesterday's close: 17,507.4 (+98.83 points) The Nikkei rose 0.57 per cent to its highest close in nine months, as shares in Toyota Motor and other exporters gained on hopes they would raise their earnings forecasts.
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    • 38 47 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,975.13 (+25.99 points) Chinese shares closed 0.88 per cent higher, extending record gains into a fourth day on the back of sustained fund inflows, with finandals and real estate developers in favour.
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    • 34 47 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,768.8 (+33.8 points) Australian stocks rose 0.59 per cent for a third consecutive record finish, as investors bought resource stocks after base metal prices jumped in London overnight.
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    • 33 47 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,183.04 (+13.92 points) Malaysian shares closed 1.19 percent higher, as foreign interest in select blue chips led the benchmark index to its ninth consecutive day of gains.
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      34 47 AFP Yesterday's close: 14,110.46 (+69.22 points) »India's Sensitive Index rose 0.5 per cent, led by Oil Natural Gas, the nation's biggest oil explorer, after crude oil surged the most in 16 months.
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    • 23 47 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,805.69 (-2.88 points) »Indonesian shares closed 0.16 percent lower, led by a selloff in the banking sector.
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    • 35 47 AFP Yesterday's close: 657.16 (+6.4 points) Thai stocks closed 0.98 per cent higher. Gains in heavy-weight energy and banking stocks took the lead in the market rise amid increasing global oil prices.
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    • 135 47 Jan 24 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS I :OREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT )F FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling lust dollar 1.2010 1.2150 Jan dollar 1.2930 1.3080 Euro 1.9910 2.0130 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4382 0.4387 4Z dollar 1.0680 1.0920 Sterling pound 3.0300 3.0640 JS dollar
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    • 667 48 REUTERS It launches $7.7b drive to become a top-three global gaming company GENTING, Malaysia's casino monopoly since 1969, has staked its future on growth beyond the gambling curbs of its Muslim homeland. With the well-connected Lim family in control, a US$5 billion (557.7 billion) drive
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    • 405 48 BLOOMBERG NEWS Ho Chi Minh City QANTAS Airways, Australia's largest airline, is in talks to acquire as much as 30 per cent of Pacific Airlines, the smaller of Vietnam's two state-owned carriers, the Vietnamese airline said. "Company officials are in Australia now for
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    • 451 49  -  Bryan Lee 25-year contract ends prematurely as govt firms up longer-term vision for the port PSA International's 25-year contract to manage and operate Brunei's Muara container terminal is coming to a premature end after just six years. It will hand back the
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    • 535 49  -  Grace Ng On the cards Banks and other lenders will now be able to issue unsecured loans of up of $500 to anyone, regardless of their income. No-frills cards which do not have reward points or discount programmes and thus, fewer costs
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    • 272 49 GRACE NG SEAGATE Technology will continue moving production of lowermargin disk drives offshore, but it reaffirmed its commitment to designing and making new high-end models in Singapore. Chief financial officer Charles Pope said yesterday that the firm is now producing new 1.8-inch
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    • COMPANIES IN BRIEF
      • 53 49 THE group managing director and chief executive of agricultural commodities supplier 01am International, Mr Sunny Verghese, has been named Best Executive in Singapore for 2006 by Asiamoney magazine. In the past 17 years, Mr Verghese grew 01am to a business with nearly $4.4 billion
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      • 56 49 CHINA Fishery Group's subsidiary China Fisheries International has added six supertrawlers to its fleet, bringing the total number of vessels to 23. With a vessel operating agreement announced yesterday the firm's fourth the company's harvest capacity in the North Pacific ocean will be 93 per
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      • 59 49 SHIPBUILDER Pan-United Marine has won a US$39 million (Ss6o million) contract from Handel Maritime to build a second 180 m super heavyweight construction vessel. This will be built at its Batam shipyard for delivery in the third quarter of 2009. The deal is a repeat
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    • 485 50  -  Goh Eng Yeow This is despite record sales of $8.57b; firm proposes payout of 35 cents a share SOARING oil prices last year helped Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) report a record annual turnover, even though net profits were squeezed by a fall in
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    • 404 50  -  Gabriel Chen TAKING STOCK THE record closes just keep coming, with another one yesterday that likely reflected the spate of positive forecasts being unrolled. One came from the Monetary Authority of Singapore's executive director of macroeconomic surveillance and economic policy, Mr Edward
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    • 419 50  -  Lee Su Shyan ASCOTT Residence Trust (ART) has beaten its own forecast by 8 per cent for payouts to investors in its first nine months since listing on the Singapore Exchange. The real estate investment trust with a string of service residences across
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    • 360 50  -  GABRIEL CHEN WARRANT WATCH WITH the Straits Times Index (STI) tutting new record highs, the benchmark has stolen the hearts of warrant traders this week. STI warrants attracted heavy buying after the index racked up its biggest one-day gain
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    • 249 50  -  ARTHUR POON HIAP SENG DIRECTORS CASH IN ON GAINS DIRECTORS of energy-related Hiap Seng Engineering have cashed in on gains in the company's share price following the recent bull run on the Singapore bourse. Non-executive chairman Cheng Buck Poh sold 21 million shares at an average price of
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    • 150 51 WHILE enterprises needing research and development (R&D) talent often find that the best brains are in research institutes and are too costly to hire, many researchers in A* Star's rich pool of R&D talent are itching to get out of their laboratories and apply their expertise in the
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    • 548 51  -  Erica Tay Number of govt researchers to be seconded to firms to double to 250 CALL it a match made in tiigh-tech heaven. A :'rent-a-boffin" scheme to loan researchers from Government labs to businesses has been so successful the numbers will be doubled.
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    • 8 51 UP DOWN Gainers: 524 Losers: 265 Unchanged: 557
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    • 231 51  -  ARTHUR POON ADVANCE'S $20M PROJECT MORE than 100 new jobs will be created when Singapore's first integrated copper refinery and manufacturing plant opens later this year at a cost of $20 million. The refinery is being built by printed circuit board (PCB) tester
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    • 164 52 ARTS CULTURE VULTURE Ml FRINGE FEST CHINESE ART I Clint Eastwood weighs in Lifel's critics pick China today, on the real price of war the must-see shows told in art page 4 pageB page 6 \\J* It was touted as The Next Big Thing in the .i^P PJv?^fll Pf *****,
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    • 649 53 LAT-WP/AP The Oscars go international this year with a striking number of non-American nominees HOLLYWOOD Most days, everyone in Hollywood assumes the world revolves around them. But as the nominations for the Academy Awards proved, show business is revolving around the world. In saluting movies that were
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    • 345 53 AP Best Picture: Babel, The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Peter O'Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit Of Happyness), Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland) Best Actress: Penelope Cruz
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      • 656 54  -  Stephanie Yap ARTS REPORTER IN HONG KONG A YEAR after Singapore artists strutted their stuff in Hong Kong, it is time for the latter's artists to pay a visit here. From next Friday until Feb 10, a smorgasbord of arts and culture offerings from the Chinese
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        673 54 > backstage In this fly-on-the-wall column, we bring you the buzz in the arts world SIX local musicals are in the works, and may come to a stage near you soon. They range from frothy romances to weighty bio-pics. For instance, Georgette is based on the life and
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        98 55 1 thought it was perfect. So many nude people in one movie, all delivering their lines naked. It was like a dare: What idiot would do a film like this? Me' Director Paul Verhoeven on the Showgirls screenplay 'I'm not a sex symbol. I look like the guy who
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      • 1037 55  -  Yeow Kai Chai Letters From Iwo Jima is not just another Hollywood war film. Told from the Japanese side, it cuts to the crux of war culturevulture THE sheer weariness of it all: Eyes drained and body hunched, the skinny Japanese private was found, digging a grave
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      • 186 55  -  Clara Chow CHINESE opera sung in English to the sounds of a Western orchestra may seem too postmodern for some. But it is just what the Chinese Theatre Circle is going to attempt. Billed as a "uniquely Singapore Chinese opera", the home-grown arts
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      • 1207 56  -  Clara Chow After the false start of the *****, Vietnam's art is poised to take on a higher profile, despite rampant fakes and copying ARTS CORRESPONDENT SOON after Karen Ong moved to Hanoi on a job posting in 2003, she was lured by a landscape
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      • 287 56 HERE'S a little black book listing of reputable art galleries: Ho Chi Minh City: Galerie Quynh 23 Ly Tv Trong Street, District 1 Tel/Fax: 848-824-8306 E-mail: info@galeriequynh.com, www.galeriequynh.com Founded in 2000 by Vietnamese-American curator Quynh Pham and creative director Robert Cianchi, this gallery has a reputation
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        420 57  -  Clara Chow Chinese contemporary art is so much in demand that for some collectors, it's buy first, talk later ARTS CORRESPONDENT IN THE striking painting by Chengdu-born, Beijing-based Yin Kun, a group of dour-faced, Mao-suited children wait for some pork ribs to be cut and divided among them.
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      • 548 59  -  Clara Chow Art And Disability is the theme of this year's M 1 Singapore Fringe Festival, so expect performances which tackle both physica[ and non-physical afflictions OVER 48 hours, designers, architects, students and even the man in the street will huddle together to explore how environments can
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      • 396 59 Hong Xinyi, June Cheong and Tay Suan Chiang HOW DID THE CAT GET SO FAT? (Teater Ekamatra) Written and directed by Zizi Azah Abdul Majid, this play is a whimsical yet insightful take on national and cultural identity. Stars Siti Khalijah Zanal. Feb 1 and 2, Esplanade Recital
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        739 59  -  Tee Hun Ching booksforthesoul IT IS an age-old test of one's outlook on life: Is the glass half-full or half-empty? From the title of American advice columnist Azriela Jaffe's 2003 book, it's clear what her protagonists think. Half Full compiles 40 real-life tales of optimism, hope and faith.
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      • 218 61 OPERA'S voice of America, Renee Fleming (right), will sing here for the first time on March 16 and 17 The 46-year-old soprano, who tias won two Urammys, will perform at Victoria Concert Hall on both nights, trilling out perennial pleasers such as Mozart's Laudamus Te,
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      • 142 61 EXPECT sparks to fly as geeks battle it out in Singapore's first infocomm reality game show, iWhiz. Hosted by Julian Hee and Tracy Tan, the weekly game show features 12 young contestants aged 14 to 21 split into three teams. They have to
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      • 146 61 BEIJING Who was T]o&n% Ziyi kissing in New York? After the actress was seen with her new beau at a National Basketball Association game last Saturday, the media and the blogosphere have been ??oxltl over his identity. Chinese bloggers have tossed up two names:
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        108 61 BOSSY CHILDREN: Shah Rukh Khan says he agreed to replace the venerated Amitabh Bachchan as host of the top-rated Indian TV game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, only after a nod from his young children. "You can do it if Crorepati uncle is not doing it," Khan said his son
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      • 220 61 SO YOU think you can't dance? If you have a mortal fear of committing murder on the dance floor with your two left feet, we've got good news for you. This week, we show you how to boogie your way into a girl's heart step by groovy
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    • 283 89  -  TEE HUN CHINC In many ways, going for a job interview is as Vierve-racking as sitting for a major exam. You have to cram for it, sweat over it and, when it's all over, fret about whether or not you'll make the grade. Worse, a job
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    • 99 91 TCM BEAUTY: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) group Eu Van Sang has opened a 10,300 sq ft holistic lifestyle store called Red, White Pure at 03-09 Vivo City. The store imports cult brands like Mor Cosmetics from Australia and bodycare line Red Flower from the United States. It also boasts
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      • 257 91 AFP Fur flew when animal rights campaigners interrupted Hong Kong's annual Fashion Week expo with a series of anti-pelt protests that upstaged designers and models gathered for the international event. A catwalk invasion by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) activists last week brought one of
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        193 91 By now, fans of the Kill Bill trilogy will no doubt have gotten their hands on the retro-looking Onitsuka Tiger Tai Chi shoes by Asics, worn by Uma Thurman in the films. But for everyone else, Onitsuka Tiger has rolled out other updated designs like metallic ballet mules
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      • 316 91 High fashion is the latest star in the virtual world as Dior previewed its new fine jewellery collection on website www.secondlife.com earlier this month. The French fashion house is the latest of several retailers using virtual reality as a marketing platform. Second Life is a simulated online world
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    • 730 91 Do you have a problem with the way you look? E-mail your queries to May Yip at sturban@sph.com.sg QI have atopic eczema all over my body and am now feeling down because I can't bare my skin in sleeveless tops, tubes or spaghetti-strapped outfits. I'm out of
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    • 231 91 These two head-turners were spotted at the grand opening of Cafe del Mar at Siloso Beach last Friday Apple Lim, 24, medical representative Where did you get your clothes from? My top is from This Fashion and cost about $20. I bought this cute black skirt
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      109 92 SHAAN SETH's best picks For a new skin regime, try Estee Lauder's Nutritious Vita-Mineral Radiance Essence and the Nutritious Restorative Night Creme to repair and hydrate your skin. $82 each, from all Estee Lauder counters. Walk the style talk in this pair of wedges with floral embroidery
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      154 92 Strap on the Cape Cod from Hermes and you'll feel its full weight. The watch will set you back a very heavy $43,480. Hand-assembled, it has a power reserve of eight days. Available at 01-02 A, Liat Towers and Level 2, Takashimaya. Golf game's going nowhere? There's
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    • 775 94  -  TAY SUAN CHIANG Think again even guys with Kvo left feet can groove with these moves ancing is hot this month. On Sunday night, Korean pop star Rain dazzled I some 7,000 fans with his nifty moves at his concert at the Singapore Indoor
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      285 95 f\ o, that painstakingly crafted resume you I sent out months ago has done the trick. You've secured that coveted job I interview. The next step: living up to that promise. Tomorrow is the big day and gasp you do not know what to wear, what to
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    • 854 95  -  MAX MUN SAN Why should we employ you? This can be unnerving if you read it as "so, what makes you think you are good enough for this job?". Well, don't read it so. Consider it a God-sent question to allow you to summarise your strengths
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    • 941 97 "I Failing to research on the company and the job. Checking the company's website prior to the interview is basic homework. But this does not mean you should simply regurgitate the information. Instead, try to find out more about, say, the company's competitors or its upcoming projects.
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    • 743 97 Be safe rather than sorry. Dress the part for the position, the company and the industry, erring on the conservative side. Most times, you won't be privy to the way the interviewer will be dressed, so wear a more formal, layered attire that can become more casual
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      1079 98 NYT Politics in Washington is getting a facelift with the new Speaker of the House leading the way auding someone for his style on Capitol Hill is a lot like celebrating the best surfer on Florida's Gulf Coast it's all relative and, some would argue, irrelevant. Washington has
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      808 99  -  MAY YIP Aunties may be fans of department store brands, but fashionistas should not write off in-house labels n-house clothing brands targeting young working women or older women more comfortable with frump than fashion are undergoing a shift in shoppers. Fashionistas who usually covet brand-name goods at all
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    • 317 99 ISETAN Communique Malaysian-designed blouses for career women in fabrics imported from Europe, Japan and Korea From $49 to $59 Lisvie Although not revolutionary in shape or cut, Lisvie's mix-and-match styles are well constructed for Asian figures $49 for a T-shirt to $499 for a jacket Voyage de Rita
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      734 100 The British fashion invasion continues with River Island, which opens its first flagship store in Asia at VivoCiry next week OR the girl who can't quite afford Burberry and the boy who's still aspiring to be a Dunhill man, thank goodness for high-street chains like Topshop, Ben Sherman,
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        81 100 The Rockerbilly look Thanks to the rash of New Wave rockers, it looks like waistcoats, skinny jeans and worn-in shirts (right) are still the rage. The Preppy Dandy Boys can sure clean up nice. Try a preppy V-neck cardigan with rugged raw-denim jeans and a flat cap
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        90 100 Fit to a T What do you get when you mix the comfort of your favourite T-shirt with the glamour of sequins and bead-work? The perfect T-shirt dress (right), of course. i Tunic Tunic mini-dresses are essentials for our tropical clime. This season, wear them J with
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      207 101 This column, which runs on the last Thursday of every month, rounds up the best parties and lets you in on who was seen where and at what do TOP OF THE WORLD (left): Keppel Group's corporate communications executive Diana Chan (from left), corporate communications senior executive Grace Chia
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    • 114 101 If you have an event and would like Urban to feature it, e-mail the pictures to sturban@sph.com.sg and include: 1. Full name of the event, date and venue it was held. 2. Full names and designations of all the guests photographed and the companies they work
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    • 170 102  -  FRANKIE CHEE PHOTOS: LIQUID DIET Chill out at Sentosa's beach-front bars with these delectable drinks that serve up tropical delight with bright colours and fruity flavours With the renowned Cafe Del Mar now open at Siloso Beach, there's one more reason to enjoy the sand and the sea
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    • 84 102 WHAT: There are many types of margaritas, but a banana margarita, which evokes images of a tropical oasis, is not something you hear about every day. WHO: Tourists, especially those who love full-bodied, fruity alcoholic drinks, down most of the 30 to 40 glasses that are sold every
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      73 102 WHAT: A non-alcoholic fruity slushy made with blackcurrant, peach and lime. WHO: Everyone, from kids wielding sand spades to the silver-haired with walking canes, down the refreshing non-alcoholic drink. About 100 glasses are sold each week. WHERE: The drink is a signature of Coastes at Siloso Beach, and
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      124 102 WHAT: A vodka-based drink that is sold in a bottle an Absolut vodka bottle, to be precise. The intriguing drink has layers of colours, from blue at the bottom to greenish-grey at the top. The aficionados drink it straight from the bottle, while the rest pour it into
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        88 103 Now here's something you don't often see in January-fresh lychees. These organic ones are from Queensland, Australia, and you can get them from L'Organic, a fruit and vegetable market in Dempsey Road. And you should. Every single one I ate was sweet and bursting with juice. The seeds
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        123 103 How dark do you like it? I'm talking about chocolate, of course, specifically the percentage of cocoa in your chocolate bar. If, like me, you have embraced your dark side, you might want to check out these bars from Meiji. I found them, funnily enough, at Watson's,
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        96 103 A box of these cheese sticks came in very handy one Sunday afternoon at work. The canteen was closed and I was hankering after a savoury snack. Epicure cheese straws came to the rescue. The puff pastry they're made of is really crisp and light. Better yet, they
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    • 561 104  -  PRADEEP PAUL PHOTOS: Get a lean, mean physique and well-defined muscles with these workout tips PERSONAL TRAINER f you exercise regularly, chances are you know the meaning of "ripped" in fitness speak. If you don't, all you have to do is look at Chris Cheng's (right) body in
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    • 218 104 CRUNCH WITH LEG CROSSOVER What it works: The abdominals How to do it: Holding a weight near your chest, lift your head and shoulders off the floor and crunch your abs. Hold this for three seconds while you lift your legs and
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    • 288 105  -  ong Su-Lin When Singaporean musician J] Lin is back home, he never fails to indulge in his favourite local dish chilli crab. Taiwan-based Lin, 25, who was in town to perform at the New Year's Eve countdown party at Vivo City, says proudly: "Nothing gets better than Singapore seafood.
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      384 105 CJ THINGS >CINHIS Q^BAG His bag i I'm actually sponsored by Nike in Taiwan, J but adidas used to give me stuff, too. I like this adidas bag because I'm a big fan of sports and streetwear brands. 1 Versace sunglasses I got this as a New Year
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