The Straits Times, 8 June 2007

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  • 25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 132 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 FRIDAY, JUNE 8 2007 Jp A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • 598 1  -  Lorna Tan MOM may also raise claim limits in review of Workmen's Compensation Act By Ftnance Correspondent ALL employees in Singapore are set to be covered for workplace injuries in a dramatic proposed extension of the Workmen's Compensation Act. About one million more
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  • 479 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST New York IN A leap forward for stem cell research, three teams of scientists have produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells in mice using skin cells avoiding the controversial need to destroy embryos.
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  • 74 1 A dancer from cultural performing group Ana Kumari Sanggar from Palembang, Indonesia, greets visitors at the opening ceremony of the Kampung Festival at the Singapore Expo yesterday. The event, which runs till Sunday, features kampung products from the past such as traditional food and pottery from
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  • UPFRONT
    • 1288 1  -  Grace Chng By Deputy News Editor FOR the past month or so, ST Elejtronics' Joseph Tan has been heading home late every night for a quick shower and change of clothes before heading out again back to work. His wife has
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 55 1 nV^ir^-T-TT 1 A success RF^HHr^Jf 70 million a A SLJr story H^^Hk^ hits in a year I) [V |-< X lAI 1 R Ethnic-based self-help STs interactive website v-^-L AVXJ_V^ I.JL l^^AA groups have worked out turns one. Its next well: CDAC chief tells why big thing: Club Stomp INSIGHT.
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  • UPFRONT
    • IN A FLASH
      • 32 2 SECTION ONE Prime 2-4 Asia 6-20 World 21-27 Review 28-31 Insight 32-33 FYI 34 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H2l Forum H22 Sports H23-H2B Obituaries H29-H3O Money H3l-H36 LIFE! Music ....LlO, Ll3-LlB Events TV....L22-L27
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      • 24 2 Joint dengue study The Malaysian government is proposing joint research with Singapore as dengue fever liits near-epidemic levels in the country. PAGE 6
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      • 26 2 Taiwan suffers a crushing diplomatic setback as Costa Rica, one of its oldest allies, says it has switched recognition to rival China. PAGE 8
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      • 24 2 Scientists have identified 10 new genes linked to seven common ailments, including heart disease and high blood pressure. PAGE 21
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      • 39 2 Russia provoked The United States is foolish to provoke Russia with plans to install anti-missile systems in Europe. There is nothing to be gained from starting a new arms contest in a post-Soviet, post-Cold War era. PAGE 28
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      • 22 2 Chinese policy zigzag The Chinese government risks undermining its credibility with its policy zigzag in managing the share markets. PAGE 31
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      • 30 2 S'porean gets death Singaporean Lim Tiong Seng and his Malaysian accomplice have been sentenced to death for a botched armed robbery in Johor Baru in 200 i. PAGE H2
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      • 31 2 A simple test pressing on a specific spot has been found to help doctors diagnose a specific ligament tear tnat can cause chronic wrist pain. PAGE H8
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      • 32 2 The Infocomm Development Authority is proposing rules to stop operators of chatlines and other "premium rate" mobile services from collecting fees for a service under dispute. PAGE Hl2
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      • 22 2 Monitoring creches A reader questions whether the hygiene and size of intakes at playschools and creches are being monitored. PAGE H22
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      • 20 2 Project Work is the deciding factor for admission into competitive university courses, says a reader. PAGE H22
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      • 33 2 Beckham comeback David Beckham, recalled to the England squad, set up two of the goals in the victory over Estonia with his trademark crosses, but the future looks very uncertain. PAGE H23
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      • 27 2 Office space scramble Demand for office space in Singapore is so strong that firms are scrambling for the chance to lease old state buildings. PAGE H36
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  • PRIME
    • 566 3  -  K.C. VIJAYAN It alleges his property sell-off was aimed at avoiding payment of about $11m he owes By Law Correspondent THE new National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has filed a police report against its ex-chairman Richard Yong, alleging that his moves to sell off
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    • 115 3 A car crash on Yishun Avenue 1 early yesterday morning left the driver dead and his passenger with serious injuries. The car was beading towards Orchid Country Club at about lam when it hit a tree on the road's central divider. It then crossed
      BRYAN VAN DER BEEK  -  115 words
    • 363 3  -  T. Rajan By TRAVELLERS to Singapore will soon be clearing immigration by having their faces scanned. The Government has called a tender for a facial screening system considered to be almost tamper-proof to be installed at all immigration ;ntry and exit points over the
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    • 627 4  -  Grace Ng It's challenging HK as a home for heavyweights and bolstering clout as major financial centre By SINGAPORE is now attracting bil-lion-dollar hedge funds a sophisticated and increasingly powerful type of investment fund mainly for wealthy investors that aims for turbo-cnarged returns. In doing
      REUTERS  -  627 words
    • 328 4 REUTERS. ASSOCIATED PRESS Heiugendamm (Germany) RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Putin yesterday proposed setting up a joint missile radar base with the United States in Azerbaijan to overcome a crisis between the two countries. In a meeting on the sidelines of the Group
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    • ASIA
      • 193 6  -  Chow Kum Hor By Malaysia Correspondent In Kiima Lumpur DENGUE fever is flaring up again to near-epidemic levels in Malaysia and Singapore. So, the government here has proposed that both countries look into joint research to better understand the different strains of
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      • 268 6 Among those who were infected by the dengue virus last week was Perlis legislator Loh Yoon Foo, who was admitted to hospital last Thursday. Datuk Lee said Malaysia could also cooperate with Singapore by sharing its experience on enlisting the help of foreign workers to keep
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      • 314 6  -  AIASTAIR Mclndoe By Philippines Correspondent In Manila AS HE jabs a finger at a tyre weighing down the roof of a shack, Mr Dennis Caboboy explains patiently to the shack's owner why tyres like that make ideal breeding places for dengue-carrying Aedes mosquitoes.
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      • 499 6  -  Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok THERE has been a 15 per cent spike in dengue fever cases in Thailand so far this year, and officials are on the alert against the Aedes mosquitoborne disease. Dr Kamniiaq Ungchusak, the director-general of
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      • 379 6  -  Dcvi Asmarani By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta RESIDENTS of the Indo nesian capital have been badly hit by dengue fever this year. In a move to fight the disease, the city's admims tration plans to impose fines on those whose homes and buildings
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    • CHINA
      • 577 8  -  Ong Hwee Hwee Latin American country switches to China, citing its economic stature By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei TAIWAN suffered a crushing diplomatic setback yesterday after Costa Rica, one of its oldest allies, announced that it has switched recognition to rival China.
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      • 228 8  -  CLARISSA 00N BEIJING yesterday welcomed Costa Rica's decision to sever ties with Taiwan, and urged the island's other allu i to switch their allegiance to China. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu said Costa Rica's move brings Beijing's total number of illies to 169, which
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      • 79 8 As their children sweated over their National College Entrance Exam, these parents waiting outside the school in Changzhi, in north China's Shanxi province, were sweating too. A record 10 million high school students across China are taking the all-important "gaokao" for up to four days from
        REUTERS  -  79 words
      • 386 8 A6ENCE FRANCE-PRESSE. ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS Tokyo FORMER Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui yesterday visited a Tokyo war shrine to pay his respects to his late brother, drawing a quick rebuke from China. He denied malting a political statement by visiting the Yasukuni shrine, a
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      • 481 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO: Taipusi (China) OFFICIALS in Inner Mongolia say they have established a barrier wide enough to hold back the Gobi desert and curb sandstorms that often hit North-east Asia and the United States. Taipusi, one of Inner Mongolia's banners, or
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      • 437 9 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Public warned to keep away from affected areas, with algae bloom to stay for some time Beijing RED tide' algae has polluted the seas off Shenzhen in southern China for the third time this year, killing marine
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 309 10 REUTERS Beijinc; HUNDREDS of students clashed with police and burnt cars in central China after street inspectors beat up a female student, in the latest in a series of public disturbances. A police officer said yesterday that students from several universities
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      • 544 10  -  Kwan Weng Kin Lim Boon Heng says it convinces him of need to keep Spores seniors working longer By Japan Correspondent In Senoai (Miyagi Prefecture) MINISTER in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Boon Heng said here yesterday he was convinced Singapore must get
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      • 548 12  -  William Choong While cooperation increases, Canberra is more moderate in its China policy By For The Straits Times In Canberra THE high-level talks between Australia and Japan on Wednesday constitute a significant milestone in their evolving relationship. But the first-ever "two-ontwo" meeting between the
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      • 118 12 Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo yesterday called on South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun. According to a press statement released by the ministry, Mr Yeo briefed President Roh on his visit to the Kaesong Industrial Complex on Wednesday. Mr Roh thanked Singapore for its
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      • 416 12 REUTERS. ASSOCIATED PRESS Seoul NORTH Korea yesterday test-fired at least two short-range missiles, less than two weeks after its previous launch, South Korea's Defence Ministry said. "We have intelligence that North Korea fired short-range missiles into the waters off its western coast,
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      • 136 12 ASSOCIATED PRESS Tokyo NORTH Korea has taken a first step towards creating a wildlife preserve in the heavily arnie 1 no man's land dividing the Korean peninsula, I conservation group said yesterday. The razor-wire-strewn Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating communist North Korea and the
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
      • 288 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PHOJO: Islamabad PAKISTAN'S top judge wanted President Pervez Musharraf to dissolve Parliament and install him as head of an interim administration several months before his ouster, a spy chief said. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, whose sacking by General Musharraf set
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      • 226 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Colombo A RMED police forced hundreds of ethnic minority Tamils out of Colombo yesterday as part of an effort to clear the city of feared Tamil Tiger cells, officials and witnesses said. Police stormed Tamil-majority areas of the Sri Lankan capital
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      • 503 13 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Protests against special economic zones 'could grow and turn violent' New Delhi INDIAN activists say they are gearing up for a nationwide campaign against a government decision to push ahead with China-style special economic zones (SEZs) in the country. Championed by
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      • 511 14 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Biggest reward in drive to stamp out groups linked to Al-Qaeda Jolo (Philippines) THE United States handed over US$lO million (Ssls million) in bounties to four Muslim men in the southern Philippines yesterday for their role in
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      • 217 14 REUTERS Banda Aceh (Indonesia) ANGRY residents in Indonesia's Aceh have disa bled a tsunami warning system after a false alarm spread panic in a province still traumatised by the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean disaster Residents cut power to a siren on a tsunami warning
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      • 212 14 Nan (Thailand) RESIDENTS in a northern Thai district are demanding the removal of a school principal who they claimed threatened pupils at gunpoint, the Bangkok Post reported. Mr Somporn Onsuwan, director of the Ban Nam Liang school in Thung Chang district, in Nan province, allegedly
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      • 418 15 THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK, AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE 30 per cent of international id allocated for education lost due to graft, says Unesco Jakarta A REPORT from a United Nations body has named Indonesia as an example of a country that has misused international
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      • 340 15 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. REUTERS. THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Bangkok SUPPORTERS of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that they have created a new pressure group aimed at removing the junta that seized power in a coup last year. Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Tnai
        AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. REUTERS. THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  340 words
      • 78 15 PHOTO A Filipino confronting a demolition crew preparing to destroy shacks at a Muslim community in the Baclaran area in southern Metro Manila yesterday. At least 800 residents were made homeless even as they threw stones at the wrecking crew. The police escorts fought back
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      • 507 16 REUTERS. ASSOCIATED PRESS, BERNAMA Officials move in quickly to cull flocks, while clinics are on alert for human cases Kuala Lumpur THE health authorities in Selangor state said they had confined the virulent HSNI virus to three villages near its capital Shah
        REUTERS. ASSOCIATED PRESS, BERNAMA; AFP  -  507 words
    • MALAYSIA
      • 435 20 BERNAMA, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi had a deluge of good wishes after announcing that he will remarry tomorrow. Datuk Seri Abdullah, 67, has been a widower for some 20 months after his wife Endon Mahmood lost her
        BERNAMA, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK; REUTERS  -  435 words
      • 468 20  -  Carolyn Hong Father of Mongolian victim applies to have one of the defence lawyers removed By Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur IN YET another development in the sensational murder trial of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu, her father yesterday applied to the court
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    • 25 6 Reward for tip-offs Four Filipinos receive $15 million for their tip-offs that lead to the killing of militant leaders in the country's south. PAGE 14
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  • WORLD
    • 346 21 Paris A DRAMATIC genetic breakthrough has paved the way for the potential treatment of seven common diseases that afflict millions of people around the globe. The largest study of its kind has found 10 new genes linked to seven of
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    • 292 21 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE REUTERS Major study THE investigation was the biggest study ever undertaken of the genetics behind common diseases. It revealed new genetic links associated with: Heart disease Rheumatoid arthritis High blood pressure Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Bipolar disorder
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    • 271 21 London A ROUTINE operation to restore the sight of people with the most common cause of blindness will be available within a decade, scientists believe. A team of British doctors say they have achieved a ground-breaking stem cell treatment for age-related macular de
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    • 510 22  -  Neo Hui Mm MM LEE'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN FIRST DEPUTY PREMIER ks to exchange ;nces in nowledge-based •nomy moves By rurum times nurope Bureau In Moscow OVERCOMING Soviet bureaucratic style and creating jobs »n innovative sectors are among Russia s current challenges as it
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    • 352 22 A6ENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Washington PHOTO ASIA is expected to face a serious shortage ol fresh water due to climate change, with more than one billion people forecast to be hit by the crisis, a US State Department report warned Melting glaciers in the
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    • Article, Illustration
      38 23 A poacher smoking forest elephant meat in the Bungui forest of PHOTO Central Africa. African elephants are being hunted to extinction because of the international demand for ivory and the local demand for their meat. AP
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    • 250 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS lowa Hill (California) A CALIFORNIA man used pocket knives to amputate his own leg in order to free himself after being pinned under a tree for almost 11 hours, the authorities said. Mr Al Hill, 66, was cutting trees on
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    • 428 23 ASSOCIATED PRESS. REUTERS Raid on Kurdish rebels sparks fears Ankara is planning a larger incursion Ankara HUNDREDS of Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish guerillas, Turkish officials said, triggering fears of a bigger incursion that could
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    • 191 24 REUTERS Exeter (England) "LA NINA", the abnormal cooling of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures, is as powerful as its brother "El Nino", and the effects of global warming on their cycles need to be monitored, British scientists have said. The La Nina pattern could
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    • 560 24 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Oman's oil exports halted for third day; 40,000 in Iran evacuated to higher ground Muscat (Oman) CYCLONE Gonu weakened into a storm as it passed into a major oil shipping route towards Iran yesterday. But it had killed 15 people and
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    • 810 25  -  Jonathan Eyal Membership would be a nod to Beijing's status, but it brings its own liabilities By Straits Times Europe Bureau In London CHINESE President Hu Jintao is attending the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Germany with mixed feelings.
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    • 150 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GERMAN police battled thousands of anti-globalisa-tion protesters with water cannons late on Wednesday to stop them from gettinp close to the annual summit of the world's rich nations. Police fired jets of water to clear one of two main roads into the Baltic resort
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    • 144 25 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has renewed his opposition to European Union moves to sell weapons to China during talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "Japan opposes EU's move to lift a ban on arms exports to China," Mr Abe told President
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    • 164 25 AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE THE wife of newly elected French President Nicolas barkozy made an elegant first appearance on the international scene with her husband at a dinner to open the G-8 Summit. Mrs Cecilia Sarkozy arrived at a castle near the exclusive Baltic Sea resort
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    • 164 25 A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE PHOTOS U2 SINGER Bono led a trio of rock star activists who pressed US President George W. Bush and other leaders to do more for Africa amid accusations that rich nations are failing to meet aid promises. Bono had words of praise
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    • 568 26 Insiders say money was paid, with UK govt's approval, for more than 10 years London BRITISH arms company BAE Systems secretly paid Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia more than £1 billion (Ss3 billion) in connection with Britain's big|est ever
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      • 148 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO: Nissan Motor is recalling more than 92,000 vehicles for faulty clutch and seat cover ing problems, the company and the Transport Ministry s^id yesterday. Due to a faulty clutch problem, Nissan will recall 76,929 cars of Note, Tiida, Cube, Tiida Lat io, March
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      • 88 26 REUTERS LOS ANGELES: Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was released from prison for medical reasons after serving just over three days of a 23-day sentence but she will be confined to her home for 40 days, officials said. Hilton, 26, will also have to wear an
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      • 95 26 A6ENCE FRANCE PRESSE HANOI: A violent tornado has devastated several villages in northern Vietnam, killing one person, injuring five others and levelling more than 70 buildings, officials and state media said yesterday. The 40-m-tall whirlwind completely destroyed 57 houses and 19 workshops on Wednesday when it
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      • 101 26 LONDON: Britain's first biofuelled passenger train pulled out of a London station yesterday. The train, run by the Virgin Group of companies owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, will use a blended fuel made up of 20 per cent biodiesel, such as vegetable oil. The
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      • 101 26 REUTERS BEIJING: A newspaper in south-west China has sacked three of its editors over an advertisement saluting mothers of protesters killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy crackdown, a source said yesterday. Mr Li Zhaojun, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chengdu Evening News in Sichuan's provincial capital,
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      • 301 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS ONE of Australia's most-wanted men, a convicted drug trafficker, has been caught in Greece, disguised in a wig and carrying a forged passport and driver's licence. Tony Mokbel, 41, fled Australia in March last year during his trial. He was later convicted in
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      • 210 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS US POLICE looking for clues in the year-long disappearance of a 15-year-old girl said they found her pale but alive, locked in a hidden room at a home owned by an acquaintance of her parents. Police in Bloomfieid, Connecticut,
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      • 147 27 ASSOCIATED PRESS WALKING along a path taken by thousands of others at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, Nicole Ruhter noticed something everyone else had missed a tea-coloured. 2.93-carat diamond Nicole, 13, of Builer. Missouri, said she would
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    • 453 28 THE United States decides to station anti-missile and radar systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. In response, Russia test-fires missiles with nuclear capabilities and warm tfiat it would have no alternative but to aim these missiles at Europe if the US installs missile defence systems
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    • 1105 28  -  Rajesh M. Basrur THREAT OF WMD TERRORISM By For The Straits Times IN 2004, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1540 to counter the threat of terrorists obtaining weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). All states must take legal and administrative measures to meet this
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    • 534 28 TRANSPARENCY IN INDONESIA The following is an editorial that appeared in the June 5 edition of The Jakarta Post. READERS may have walked away with mixed feelings about the (Indonesian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs after seeing Monday's edition of The Jakarta Post. On one
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    • 879 29  -  Peter W. Hodman William Shawcross U.S. WAR IN IRAQ By SOME opponents of the Iraq war are toying with the idea of American defeat. A number are simply predicting it, while others are advocating measures that would make it more likely. Lending intellectual respectability to all
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    • 486 30  -  Joseph Chinyong Liow MOHAMED NAWAB MOHAMED OSMAN By For The Straits Times THE recent 53rd Muktamar (congress) of Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) was perhaps one of the most tense meetings in its history. While PAS is used to contests for the party leadership, this particular meeting was
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    • 454 30 FOR instance, the decision, attributed to the professionals, to build a new headquarters in Kuala Lumpur was criticised as a waste of party resources. Ordinary members further expressed discomfort with the apparent extravagant life styles of the professional group, in stark contrast to the austerity
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    • 823 31  -  Kai-Alexander Schlevogt CHINA'S SHARE MARKETS By tor me straits Times EVER played a car racing computer game with a high level of difficulty? You prcxidly accelerate and haughtily overtake the old champions. Ilien the speed increases, and suddenly a wall enters the screen.
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    • 1613 32 The Chinese Development Assistance Council, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, embodies what executive director Sam Tan was taught from young. The third of five children of a poor immigrant cabby, he was drilled on the importance of education, sacrifice, frugality and
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    • 1177 33  -  Pang Eng Fong FRIDAY MATTERS By FROM South Korea to Singapore, the numbers of foreign workers are at, or near, historic highs. Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are sending more workers abroad than ever before. In Singapore, foreign workers filledhalf of the 176,000 net
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    • 756 33  - From stuffy to vibrant city now for that fizz Sue-Ann Chia »THEPOST-65ERS By IT WAS close to midnight. Three Singaporeans were walking along Fifth Avenue in New York. They were happy, laughing. Amid the cheer, the conversation turned serious. One Singaporean asked the other two who have been living in
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    • 27 32 Managing migrant labour As South-east and East Asia grow at a fast clip, they must find ways to manage the growing flows of temporary migration. Page 33
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    • 547 34 Singapore today I I &&SBSB^4~ Showers with thunder m J M A M A H the afternoon mainly over /^X^^x/// northern and western Singapore. THE STRAITS TIMES FRIDAY, JUNE 8 2007 ////V/ ASIA A WORLD WEATHER USEFUL NUMBERS 5 THINGS YOU CAN fc. m^ 2* poiteH^::::::::;:::;;;:;;;; ktffc v X #P
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    • 542 37  -  Tanya Fong Yong disposed of 53.9 m condo unit day before giving up in NKF case By ONE day before he threw in the towel in the case against him by the National Kidney Foundation, former NKF chairman Richard Yong inked a
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    • 217 37 What NKF wants: The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is claiming more than $11 million in damages from former NKF chairman Richard Yong. The Straits Times understands that this amount includes: Close to $800,000 in liquidated damages for the failed defamation suit the old NKF took
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    • 176 37 FORMER National Kidney Foundation (NKF) chairman Richard Yong, 65, was one of four ex-board members who were hauled to court earlier this year by the NKF for breaching their duties when they were in office. Yong, ex-treasurer Loo Say San, 58, and former board member Matilda Chua,
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    • 672 38  -  Sujin Thomas Man found guilty of discharging firearm- partner gets death as well By A SINGAPOREAN man and his Malaysian accomplice have been sentenced to death for an armed robbery bid in Johor Baru in 2001. During the botched attempt, Singaporean Lim
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    • 436 38  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent A COUPLE were sentenced to jail and fined a total of $144,000 yesterday, in the first successful prosecution for the sale of fake cigars. District Judge Amy Tung in sentencing Esther Goh Soo Im, 53, and her
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    • 272 38  -  ELENA CHONG A MAN who tried to force his wife to choose between allowing him to blow up their home or having him "shut her mouth permanently" was jailed for five months yester day. The trouble began on March 30, when Madam
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    • 390 39  -  Elena Chong INDECENT EXPOSURE IN SCHOOL Judge concludes he is unlikely to repeat act and fines him $2,500 By Court Correspondent A SINGAPORE Armed Forces (SAF) officer was spared a jail sentence when he was fined a total of $2,500 yesterday for
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    • 353 39  -  Amelia Tan By IT ALL boils down to knowing your enemy, understanding how he thinks and seeing patterns in the moves he makes. A pair of decorated police investigators, who practised these maxims to nab two groups of elusive criminals, picked up another
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    • CASE FILE
      • 56 39 A SNATCH thief robbed an elderly woman of her gold chain and pendant worth $400 on Tuesday. The woman, in her mid-80s, was near the lift lobby at Block 106, Simei Street 1, at 1.30pm when a darkcomplexioned man came behind her and fled with
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      • 47 39 BUNDLES of copper wire worth $400 were stolen from a van in an open-air carpark at Block 63, Kallang Bahm. The van's owner found the vehicle's rear window missing, along with the bundles, on Wednesday at 7.30 am. Witnesses should call 1800-255-0000.
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      • 34 39 DUTY-UNPAID cigarettes packed in 100 cartons were found hidden in a Malay-sian-registered Mer-cedes-Benz at Woodlands Checkpoint on WednesdayCustoms duty and GST payable on the contraband are about $7,000 and $450 respectively.
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      • 53 39 A 26-YEAR-OLD man was fined $3,000 yesterday for pointing a knife at the neck of his girlfriend. Raymond Goh Wei Loon pleaded guilty to criminal intimidation by threatening to hurt Ms Minnie Ang, 18, at a void deck in Lorong Ah Soo on June
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      • 44 39 A 44-YEAR-OLD man was charged yesterday with assaulting a nine-year-old boy at a playground in Ang Mo Kio. One Boon Hwa allegedly grabbed the boy's neck, slapped his cheek and kicked his buttocks twice on March 10 last year.
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    • 632 40  -  HoAiLi Maria Almenoar Students seeking redress from school, such as refund or change of college By THE Ministry of Education (MOE) and Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) are looking into private school Froebel Academy, which has been hit by complaints from students and
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    • 233 40 FINANCIAL adviser Jasmin Chong, 35, was pleasantly surprised yesterday when she visited the Singapore Science Centre with her family. As the 16 millionth visitor to the 30-year-old science centre, the mother of two was welcomed with bouquets and dancing lions, and given $500 and
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    • 512 40  -  Ho Ai Li By A uROUP of academic staff from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Asia met university management on Wednesday, but were left no happier about their future. In their first group meeting with the university's management since the news
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    • 662 44  -  Natalie Soh ressing at right spot ;an reveal ligament tear, which can be repaired with surgery By IT IS about putting a bit of pressure, pressing at the right spot bui this deceptively simple test is making waves among hand and
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    • 667 44  -  Lee Hui Chieh By AN ADVANCED radiation machine recently installed at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) can destroy brain tumours that previously could not be removed using surgery or existing radiation machines. The new technology could save the lives of up to 200 to 300
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    • 505 46  -  T. Rajan Vessels may be used to secure anchorages; DSTA looking into deployment scenarios By UNMANNED sea vessels are likely to play a front-line role in securing vital anchorages around Singapore. Operated by remote control, they can be fitted with cameras,
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    • 254 46  -  Teh Joo Lin By A NEW heavyweight is in town. The first of 66 German Leopard 2A4 tanks has arrived here to be put through its paces before being inducted into the army's arsenal. The main battle tank, spotted by The Straits Times close
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    • 450 48  -  Alfred Siew LIM YEE HUNG IDA proposals on those offering mobile services come in wake of complaints By Technology Correspondent THE heat is on operators of chatlines and other "premium rate" mobile services following a spate of complaints from mobile-phone users. As a result, the
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    • 265 48 A weekly look at what to watch out for in the world of consumers. Figures, case study and tips come from the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). The world of pets 41 No. of cases filed I (January to December 2006) Top complaint 1. Failure to honour contract
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    • 385 50  -  Salma Khalik By Health Correspondent CENTRAL Provident Fund members who turn 55 from July 1 will have to set aside $99,600 in their Retirement Account, up from the current $94,600, before withdrawing the savings in excess of this. They must also leave
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    • 84 50 School's out, fun's in. With the mid-year school holidays into its second week, many children are spending their time away from the classroom playing at Vivo City's open-air playground. The second-level playground boasts interactive water features and gives children a chance to let loose. It also offers
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    • 491 50  -  Yap Su-Yin Some family service centres go beyond financial aid to help the needy stand on their own feet By 1 WANTING to do more than just connect needy families to social assistance, some family service centres (FSCs) are helping the needy set
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    • 741 52  -  Radha Basu PHOTO: STRUGGLING: Money is tight for caregivers like Mr Patrick Nadarajan (above), who c°n a I ldia^ es," c his mothef« Madam Meenachi, who is in her late 50s and suffersjrorn fits. Mr Nadarajan scrapes together about $250 a month through
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    • 209 52  -  RADHA BASU SINCE April last year, the Centre for Caregivers has been providing support to caregivers of the elderly, the disabled and those who are chronically or mentally ill. The centre provides information and referral services, runs support-group meetings and connects
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    • 535 54  -  Tham Yuen-C Tool helps grassroots leaders to assist and follow up on such residents more efficiently By WHEN Madam Chan Ah Pek, 89, fell down two months aco, the grassroots volunteers in her neighbourhood in Chinatown did not jusc take her to the hospital. Physiotherapy
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    • 80 55 A fire broke out in a Sungei Kadut warehouse yesterday morning. The fire blazed in a single-storey zinc structure containing wooden furniture and cushions. It was contained within 20 minutes, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), which was called at 10.43 am. Two fire engines, two
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    • 477 55  -  Yap Su-Yin Series of activities planned to get 120 disabled employed by end of the year By WITH the help of funding support from the Government, 11 companies here have hired 58 people with disabilities. But a network of employers formed earlier
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    • 499 57  -  Jessica Jaganathan By THE price of Malaysian eggs went up by half a cent yesterday, bringing the total increase to one cent per egg in a week. But further rises are unlikely at least for now.
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    • 412 58  -  Janet him Hong Eng (Mrs) MANY playschools and creches have been set up to cater to workine parents. My question is whether the ministry in charge is monitoring all playschools and creches in reprd to intake numbers and hygiene. The playschool my grandson
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    • 333 58  -  Looi Kok Yang UNIVERSITY ADMISSION I AM glad that the National University of Singapore (NUS)'s Dean of Admissions has replied to the various letters on university admission criteria ("NUS explains university admission score"; ST, June 7). He would have been clearer if he
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    • 140 58  -  Naleeza Ebrahim (Ms) I REFER to Ms Hong Xiuyun's letter on missing or faulty middle seat belts in taxis ("Missing, faulty seat belts worry mum"; ST, May 31). ft is mandatory for every taxi registered for use in Singapore to have rear seat
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    • 290 58  -  K. Bhavani (Ms) Toh Yong Chuan IN THE letter, "Officially sanctioned graffiti behind rise in vandalism?" (ST, June 5). Mr Errol Goodenough linked the reported incidents of vandalism to officially sanctioned street art. The Government continues to take a serious view of vandalism and graffiti.
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    • 162 58  -  Ng Leong Keng I REFER to the letter, "No business space? Try HDB void-deck office" (ST, May 26). Mr Mak Seek Hone suggested that void-deck space nu' town centres be converted for use as office space. Void decks in HDB estates are usually
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    • 147 58  -  Danny Chua Hock Chye THE report, "Spore stocked up on bird flu drugs" (ST, June 4), stated that Singapore has enough Tamiflu and Relenza to treat 25 per cent of the population in the event of a pandemic. Who decides which 25 per cent
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    • 265 58  -  Vincent Ng Teck Soon RECENTLY I visited a mega-supermarket in the heartlands and while the temperature outside was a hot 33 deg C. the air-conditioners made the place much colder than expected. While the fresh-food section may require such temperatures, do the
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    • 1101 59  -  Rob Hughes >EURO 2008 QUALIFIERS: ESTONIA 0 ENGLAND 3 Former skipper creates two goals, repays McClaren's decision to recall him By BETTER, much better, were England in Estonia on Wednesday. The victory had to be emphatic to spare Steve McOaren's coaching job and restore
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    • 138 59 R. Vengadasalam. Tarn pines Rovers' director of operations "Estonia are not a great team, so scoring three goals against them wasn't a big deal. Joe Cole's goal was very well-taken and, after that, it was one-way traffic for England." Spencer Robinson, sports journalist "From England's
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    • 108 59 "Steve McClaren is fortunate to have escaped a sacking with England's lucky 3-0 win. Despite Owen scoring his first England goal under him and Beckham's two assists, McClaren and England aren't out of the woods." sakurawars "Love him or hate him, Beckham was England's best
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    • 583 59 Tallinn (Estonia) STEVE McClaren will struggle to keep David Beckham out after a Man-of-the-Match performance in England's 3-0 win in Estonia on Wednesday. But why was he even dropped in the first place? The England coach curtly replied: "Funnily enough, he s been injured the
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    • 169 59 ENGLAND'S Euro 2008 qualification hopes received a big boost on Wednesday. Tneir chief Group E rivals Croatia and Russia dropped points, after playing out a goalless draw in Zagreb. Russia weathered constant pressure from the hosts to escape the Maksimir Stadium with a vital point. England
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    • 512 60  -  Leonard Lim SOCCER AC Milan coach could spring a surprise by signing the Brazilian striker in the summer By In L\ Manga, Spain ALL the transfer talk recently has been about top strikers Samuel Eto'o, Thierry Henry and Andriy Shevchenko heading to the
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    • 490 60 Group A Armenia 1 Poland 0 Finland 2 Belgium 0 Kazakhstan 1 Azerbaijan 1 Groupß Far^e Islands 0 Scotland 2 France 1 Georgia 0 Lithuania 0 Italy 2 Group C Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 Malta 0 Greece 2 Moldova 1 Norway 4 Hungary 0 Group D Germany 2 Slovakia
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    • 46 60 vrkiiiu^ t*i ruv. m t _l '"M PHOTO REUTERS .~w,™ «u«^,: -^m.r masr. snows good anticipation and cool finishing to score France's winner. RISING STAR: On his first Italy start, f abio Quag'iarella, 23, scores twice against Lithuania. REUTERS
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    • 331 60 REUTERS, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Paris hope he will get more chances to Drove that." Nasri's 33rd-minute goal seemed simple enough. AD he had to do was side-foot the ball into the net. Winger Frank Ribery did all the nard work bewitching two Georgian defenders and
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    • 325 60 REUTERS Milan HIS tongue-twister of a name has always raised eyebrows. But, on Wednesday, what made people sat up and took notice was Fabio Quagliarella's two-goal performance. They gave Italy a 2-0 win in Lithuania in a Euro 2008 Group B qualifier, keeping them
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    • 231 60 REUTERS DEFENDING champions Greece, Germany and Romania moved closer to a place in next year's European Championship Finals with wins on Wednesday. Greece beat Moldova 2-1 in Iraklion, Germany edged out Slovakia 2-1 in Hamburg and Romania defeated Slovenia 2-0 in Timisoara However, there was
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    • 356 60 London IT WOULD be the transfer shock of this off-season Thierry Henry moving to Liverpool. Speculation is rife that the Arsenal captain may leave for their Premiership rivals. Bookmaker William Hill has slashed its odds on the potential transfer after receiving a deluge of
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    • SOCCER SHORTS
      • 108 60 LONDON: Chelsea have responded angrily to reports that winger Arjen Robben had been approached by Real Madrid Real president Ramon Calderon had claimed that Madrid are in the early states" of talks with the player and insisted he was hopeful of completing presidential election
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      • 77 60 LONDON: Former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been given 48 hours to buy Manchester City or the deal is off, reported The Mirror yesterday. But the tabloid did not quote any sources. In Bangkok Thaksin s lawyer, Nopaddon Pattama, told AFP
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      • 94 60 LONDON: Mike Ashley is on the verge of assuming complete control of Newcastle, after Freddy Shepherd agreed to sell his per cent stake m the club to the billionaire sports retailer for around £37 million (Sslll million). But this does not spell the
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      • 80 60 J* OI?RP N,! West Ham ca Ptain N»gel Reo-Coker is to sign for Aston Wla, his agent Tony Finnigan told Sky Sports on Wednesday. The news comes on the same day that the Hammers paid £7 million to capture Newcastle's combative midfielder Scott Parker,
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    • 576 61 AuENCE FRANCE PRESSE riii n ip n p.».... PHOTO: tennis Ivanovic, 19, now faces two-time defending champ Henin in her first French Open final Paris SERBIAN teenager Ana Ivanovic demolished the brittle and er-ror-plagued challenge of Russia's golden girl Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-1 yesterday
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    • 430 61 ASSOCIATED PRESS Paris NOVAK Djokovic hit delicate drop shots and 200 kmh serves, thunderous forehands and sharply angled backhands, mixing strokes so well even the relentless Rafael Nadal struggled to chase them down. That was two months ago at the hard-court filial in Key Biscayne, Florida,
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    • 364 61 ASSOCIATED PRESS "OLYMPICS London IT WAS said to provoke epileptic fits. Critics likened it to a broken swastika, or "some sort of comical sex act". Now, the new £400,000 (Ssl.2 million) logo for the 2012 London Olympics has found another critic mayor Ken Livingstone. "If
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    • 234 61 REUTERS BEIJING'S battle to standardise and correct English signs ahead of the 2008 Olympics has claimed another head "WC". By year's end, all public conveniences in China's capital will be called "toilets", instead of the venerable abbreviation for "water closet". The Beijing Morning Post wrote: "In
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    • 726 62 NEW YORK TIMES BASKETBALL But Cays unfazed that Spurs have several big names and the experience San Antonio (Texas) THE Cleveland Cavaliers bumped into their first logistical challenge on Wednesday, on the eve of their first National Basketball Association finals.
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    • 57 62 I he National Basketball Association Finals will pit the team led by the league's best young player, the Cleveland Cavaliers' Leßron James, against the most consistent team of the past decade, the San Antonio Spurs. How do the two teams match up? DESIGN TEXT: PHOTOS
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    • 743 62 NEW YORK TIMES a Cleveland LEBRON James was still a teenager when he was cast as a baAetboll messiah in TV commercials and labelled 'The Chosen One" on magazine covers. Now, at the age of 22, he might soon fulfil all of
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    • 232 62 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG NEWS HOW big is Leßron James? Too big, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation, which wants to tear down die 10-storey Nike ad featuring the Cavaliers star in Cleveland, Hailing it breaks federal laws. But Ohio governor Ted Strickland
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    • 612 63 REUTERS MOTOR RACING Canadian says British rookie's moves at the start of GPs can be dangerous to rivals London JACQUES Villeneuve has broken ranks with Formula One's other ex-champions to criticise Lewis Hamilton's driving. The 1997 World Champion, who is no stranger to
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    • 387 63 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO: AMERICA'S CUP Valencia (Spain) EMIRATES Team New Zealand are out to settle a score with defending champions Alinghi in the America's Cup. The Kiwis completed a 5-0 sweep of Luna Rossa in the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup
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    • 300 63 GOLF Koh Samui (Thailand) FOUR days after the high of being joint-second at the Wales Open, Mardan Mamat opened with a one-over-par 2 at the Bangkok Airways Open yesterday. The Singaporean, who banked his biggest pay cheque of 147,215.20 euros (*****,000) on Sunday,
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    • 274 63 DEEP breathing, singing and luck. Those elements helped national golfer George Foo to the biggest win of his career at the Singapore Junior Championships yesterday. The one-handicapper shot a final-round eight-over 80 to finish on 12-over 228 (70, 78, 80) and bag the Lim Kirn
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    • 406 63 ASSOCIATED PRESS i West Palm Beach (Florida) MORGAN Pressel has been under the spotlight for most of her adolescent life. After all, she was the youngest golfer to qualify for the US Women's Open at age 12 and, in April, the youngest to win an
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    • 495 64 BADMINTON iapan in the way of Susilo and Co's bid to join top badminton nations JAPAN will be the main obstacle in Singapore's bid to join the world's top badminton countries. The Republic's shuttlers betfin their Sudirman Cup campaign on Monday in Glasgow.
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    • 599 64  -  Hoe Pei Shan SPORTS IN SCHOOLS By GIVEN a choice, Nicholas Ho would rather live in the water than on land. "I'm more comfortable in the water as I prefer using my whole body to move about, said the 12-year-old national youth swimmer. "Besides,
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    • 132 64 Name: Nicholas Ho Date of birth: Feb 17, 1994 Height: 1.72 m Weight: 55kg Family: Dad Kelvin (40) is self-employed; mother Annie (42) is a housewife; sister Amanda (11) is a CHIJ Toa Payoh pupil. Likes: Loves durians and his portable Play Station. Also prefers swimming over school anytime.
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    • MY TOP MARKS
      • 141 64 FOOTBALL apparel worth a total of $300 awaits a lucky reader this month. To take home these prizes, simply write irr to The Straits Times about an outstanding athlete in your school, how he or she has excelled in a particular sport. Articles must be
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      • 45 64 PASIR Ris Crest Secondary student Annette Tan (middle) receives $295 worth of Ashaway apparel from Pacific Sports managing director Ahmad Bakar (right). She won for her contribution to My Top Marks last month a story on fencing teammate Koh Wen Kin (left).
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    • 238 64  -  Dorcas Cheong By Nanyang JC 1 HER height of 1.58 metres might not be ideal to excel in the badminton arena. But Chong Ying Xi outshines her peers with sheer agility and dexterity. The 18-year-old Nanyang Junior College student has the nickname Xi
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    • 477 64 BASEBALL MLB: Fiondd 7 Atlanta 4. Chicago Cuds 6 Milwaukee 2. Minnesota 8 LA Angels 5. Baltimore 9 Seattle b. Kansas City 4 Cleveland 3. Washington 6 Pittsburgh 5. Tampa Bay 6 Toronto 2. Philadelphia 4 NY Mets 2. St Louis 6 Cincinnati 4. NY Yankees 5 Chicago White
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    • SPORTS WORLD
      • 78 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS: The Tour de France no longer considers Bjarne Riis as the winner of the 1996 race, after the Danish cyclist admitted having used perform-ance-enhancing drugs. Tour spokesman Philippe Sudres said yesterday it was up to cycling's governing body, the UCI, to
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      • 49 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM: The Anaheim Ducks, once derided for their goofy nickname, cartoonish logo and many mascots, captured their first Stanley Cup championship with a 6-2 rout of the Ottawa Senators. The Ducks won the National Hockey League final series 4-1 on Wednesday.
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      • 52 64 JAKARTA: An Indonesian woman boxer went into a coma in an amateur tournament in Central Sulawesi province on Wednesday. Isnawati, who fought in the 57kg class, was knocked out in the first round by another female boxer. She remained unconscious in the hospital, reported Metro
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      • 52 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO: The Japanese Olympic Committee yesterday notified the International Olympic Committee of its intention to name Tokyo as a candidate to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Tokyo last hosted the Summer Games in 1964. All candidate cities must submit their bids by
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      • 43 64 ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI: The International Cricket Council yesterday appointed Ray Mali as acting president, following the death of Percy Sonn last month. Mali will step down as president of Cricket South Africa to take up the post.
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    • 179 64 Sudirman Cup When: June 11-17 women's singles and Where: Scotstoun Arena, doubles and mixed Glasgow, Scotland doubles. Group A and B winners will square off Group 2A for promotion to the Singapore (top seed) eight-team Group 1 on Germany June 15. Taiwan c •Sweden l^T 1* 2B Monday 9.30 am
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    697 65 TAY YONG TEO Age: 105 f'n Passed away peacefully on 5 June 2007. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Tan Cheh Luan (deceased) Sy'chyeYuen (deceased, !>"■■■"' ssrs£L*« ssxx™ ss£? JongVoonSun Tey Chye Soon Henry Lee Lai Ing Candy Tey Doreena Tay Ah Boey Richard Mary Lee
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    1180 66 In Loving Remembrance Of Our Beloved Parents/ Grandparents CHNG HENG TAT JENNY KO GUAN CHOON 5 March 2001 8 June 2006 6th Anniversary Ist Anniversary Always cherished deeply missed by: SoM: Daughter in law: Chng Nai Yee Chng Nai Wee Urn Ing Ruen Daughters: Sons-in-law: Chng Sco Ping Tern
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    • 443 68 BLOOMBERG NEWS WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Brian Tierney says Murdoch's USssb bid is not too high Los Angeles A MEDIA executive, who led a croup that bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News for US$5l5 million (*****.6
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    • 651 68 REUTERS NEWS ANALYSIS New York THE fear of rising interest rates is rattling world stock markets, sending them into their worst drop since mid-March, but the big, bad equity correction might have to wait. "You have to have these pullbacks
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    • 282 68 AGENCEFRANCE PRESSE Shanghai CHINESE share prices closed sharply higher yesterday, adding some 3 per cent as investors took comfort from a renewed government pledge that it will not levy a capital gains tax to cool an overheated market. Dealers said the report, carried by
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    • 663 69  -  Liaw Wy-Cin Rig and ship builder already has $500 m contracts for ships designed to operate there By THE new frontier for Keppel Offshore and Marine (Keppel O&M) is a cold one. The oil rig and ship builder wants to develop its
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    • 261 69  -  Fiona Chan By £Xc£ L els has clinched a US$427 million (b5654 million) project to build a rig for Ensco International. This is the fourth such rig it is building for the Texas-based company, Keppel Fels said in a statement yesterday. The ultra-deepwater semi-submersible
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    • 677 70  -  Nichoias Fang More than 2,000 top execs in various fields and in communication expected at the event By SINGAPORE has been selected as the venue for the inaugural World Effie Festival, a prestigious event dedicated to effectiveness in the communication, advertising
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    • 442 70  -  Arthur Poon By THANKS to the property boom, construction companies figured prominently in an annual list of Singapore's 50 fastest-growing firms unveiled yesterday. Nine of the 50 are involved in the construction industry, including the making and selling of building materials. The ranking is based
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    • 271 70  -  Alvin Foo By OUTSOURCE your business services to Jiangsu province in eastern China. That was the call to about 200 Singapore businessmen by a Chinese delegation of about 70 officials and businessmen yesterday at the Jiangsu Service Outsourcing Industry Promotion Matchmaking
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    • 354 71  -  Joyce Teo By Property Correspondent CAPITALAND'S first residential project in Vietnam has attracted a long queue that should ensure good sales. The first phase or 273 units of its 750-unit The Vista in An Phu ward in Ho Chi Minh City
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    • 619 71  -  Erica Tay Investment group wants to take it private after buying 54.16% stake By COURTS Singapore is the subject of a takeover offer from an .investment group consisting of a private equity fund and a Kuwaiti holding firm. The investment group is making the offer
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      • 251 71  -  LEE SU SHYAN A DIRECTOR of a Cosco Corp (Singapore) subsidiary, Cosco Shipyard Group, Mr Feng Jin Hua, sold 400,000 Cosco shares at $2.95 apiece yesterday. His sale came on a day when the shares of the mainboard-list-ed shipyard and bulk carrier company
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    • 367 71  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent MAINBOARD-LISTED Mediaßing is selling its stake in Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet (PacNet) to a United States-based fund for U5544.6 million (5568.3 million) thus ending a lengthy tussle for control of the Internet service provider. The move
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    • 412 71  -  Arthur Poon TAKING STOCK By THE Singapore market finished lower yesterday, after a bumpy ride, weighed down by a second-straight day of losses on the Wall Street. The Straits Times Index (STI) opened 31.38 points weaker, after jittery investors
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    • 669 72  -  Joyce Teo SLA puts up 3 more govt buildings for tender, awards River Valley lease By Property Correspondent DEMAND for office space is so strong that firms in Singapore are scrambling for the chance to lease old state buildings such as
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    • 120 72 EQ Properties made available Gross floor for use as office space area (sq m) Former River Valley Primary School at River Valley Road 4,390 Former CPIB building at Cantonment Road 4,500 Former Moulmein community o 1 nn centre at Shan Road lUU Former ITE Pasir
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    • 199 72 BLOOMBERG NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS AIRLINE COLLAPSE CASF Buelach (Switzerland) ALL 19 Swissair Group executives and consultants were cleared of charges that they were responsible for the airline's collapse, ending Switzerland's biggest corporate criminal trial. Swissair, dubbed "the flying bank", was abruptly grounded in October 2001,
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    • 25 72 New frontier Keppel Offshore Marine wants to expand into oil mining in the Arctic and is already building ice-breakers for its Russian customers. PAGE H33
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      38 73 QWX pages 2&3 Design Photos SALLY LAM I Happy together: Stompers Lester Wee fmd Jann Yap celebrate m first birthday of the portal which introduced them to each other. DESMOND iIM 4^ TH{ NfW PAPfK
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    • 984 74  -  Lee Sze Yong The Straits Times' interactive online site Stomp turns one, and there's plenty of reason to celebrate MEOA REPORTER IT BEGAN as a way for The Straits Times newspaper to involve readers in high-tech ways via the Internet and mobile phones. One year on, interactive online
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    • 413 75 THE Club Stomp website, which will be launched on June 16, has four sections based on some of the seven deadly sins. Pride: The social-networking aspect of Club Stomp. Post your snazzy profile to attract friends. Interesting and new
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    • 411 75 SIX days of Stomp-tastic fun kick off this Monday to mark the site's first birthday. Here's where the action is: Stomp Exhibition Launch Com face to face Stamp's Star Bloggers Lcow Ju-Len. Wendy Cheng (better known as Xiaxue). Michelle Quek and Maia Lee.
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    • 411 76 Bloomberg BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie are pictured as a naked Adam and Eve standing among dead Iraqis in a Michael Sandle drawing that steals the show at the Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition. The chalk-and-charcoal Iraq Triptych (right) 1.5
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    • 346 76  -  Ong Sor Fern Another legal wrangle makes an issue of Golden Village head Kenneth Tan's employment status FILM CORRESPONDENT THE ongoing legal tussle between the co-owners of Golden Village cinemas here has taken a new twist. Australia's Village Roadshow and Hong Kong's Golden Harvest are
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    • 542 76  -  Adeline Chia PHOTO: ARTS REPORTER STUDENTS and friends of the late Mrs Lucien Wong, a famous piano teacher who groomed scores of pianists and music teachers here, have come together to set up a memorial fund in her memory. The Guangzhou-born teacher, more affectionately
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    • 735 77 Reuters VARANASI. India After checking in at the Mukti Bhawan hostel, guests have two weeks to die or else they are gently asked to leave. The hostel a short walk fiom the Ganges river in the northern Indian cily of Varanasi is a final stopover for elderly
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    • 305 77 AP LONDON Confusing a "rake" with a "ho" could be forgivable, but calling your hostess a "sket" would be a certain "barbecue stopper." The English language, where phrases fall out of favour and little known jargon fast becomes common usage, can
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    • 161 77 Reuters, AP Tanorexic Those obsessed with maintaining golden brown skin. Muffin top: A fashion faux pas in which the loose fat around the stomach spills over the top of one's low-slung jeans. POTUS: President of the United States. Crovdon facelift: The tightening effect on the skin of a
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      • 505 78  -  Emily Lek Star Search, which launched the likes of Zoe Tay, is struggling to draw a crowd STAR Search is on, but where are the aspiring stars? Only 800 people turned up for Channel B's biennial hunt for acting talent when auditions were held at Caldecott Hill
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      • 307 78 WINNING Star Search used to be a one-way ticket to local superstardom in the late 19X()s and early *****. Launched in 1988, the biennial competition had launched Zoe Tay. Chew Chor Meng and Ivy Lee to household-name status. Bui not any more. The only big thing
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      • 469 79 Chew Chor Meng, 38 Won in: 1990 (Overall champion) You've seen in him: Over 30 drama serials like Young Justice Bao. Hainan Kopi Tales and Wok Of Life. He was named Top 10 Most Popular Male Artiste 10 times in his career.
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      • 418 79 AFP J.K. Rowling promises two deaths in her last Harry Potter book. Many feel one will be the boy wizard LONDON British bookmaker William Hill has stopped taking bets on whether Harry Potter dies in the final book about the schoolboy wizard. This was
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      • 722 80  -  Cheong Suk-Wai Winsome charms of youths can help chase holiday blues away airtime VETERAN actor James Earl Jones is a legend for his big talent and even bigger voice. What a pity, then, that a man of his stature is cut down to size so abruptly in
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      • 387 81 Reuters Aloysius, the bear who starred in the TV show Brideshead Revisited, will do a cameo in a film adaptation LONDON At the ripe old jge of 100, Aloysius is too weary to revisit Brideshead, but one of the world's most famous teddy bears mar consider a
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        441 81  -  Boon Chan STRANGER THAN FICTION (PG) Will Ferrel/Magg« GyHenhaai/Dustn Hoffman/ Emma Thompson/I f3 nmnutes MCAne rating **«tttt DVD ratmg irit-CfCfCi MAYBE it's not your fault that your life sucks it's just written that way. When Harold Crick (Ferrell) starts hearing a voice (Thompson) narrating his life. he has
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      • 579 82  -  Stephanie Yap Veteran rockers Heritage will pay tribute to their late drummer at a concert tomorrow Arts Reporter THEY ARE still mourning the loss of their drummer Corey Nonis, but as seasoned performers, members of local band Heritage say, the show must go on. And so they
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      • 488 84  -  Dawn Lim The Proteo project comes here in the form of a vertical dance on the facade of Raffles City YOU would have seen dance performed on stage or maybe in the outdoors. But Italian dance company II Posto is taking dance to a diftcrent plane it is
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        149 85 PHOTO: Misery Is A Bntterflv by Blonde Redhead http://www.betterpropaganda.com/ artfct_page.asp?id=l94 The New York-based indie rock band (left) was formed in 1993 and is known for the haunting vocals of singer Kazu Makino. This is the title track of its 2004 album. Sorry by Youth Group http://www.inyspace.coni/yoiitligroup The Australian indie
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      • 550 85  -  Boon Chan Peter Low celebrates 50 years as a church musician by remembering the mentor who shaped him TO CELEBRATE his 50 years as a church musician, choral master Peter Low dearly wanted his mentor to be here in Singapore to help mark the occasion. The 58-year-old,
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      • 546 86  -  Sujin Thomas A local indie rock act will heat things up when they perform at the annual Baybeats music festival later this year homegrooves THEIR indie rock act has been Vh years in the making. Since forming in late 2005. the quartet have remained in the
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      • 208 86 HIP-HOP enthusiasts, get your dancing shoes ready. The Adidas Big' Groove 2007 Asia Hip-Hop Festival is back. Organised by O School, a local performing arts centre in Bias Basah Road, it will be held at Singapore Expo Max Pavilion to morrow and Sunday. The
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        674 87  -  Boon Chan Boon Chan Chang Tou Liang Ong Sor Fern Boon Chan > Asian pop BEST BOUNCE LOVERS Koda Kumi Warner YOU can't help but admire the efficiency of the Japanese pop machine. Koda Kumi was named by Japan's Oricon charts as last year's best-selling artiste, a feat
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      • 719 88  -  YeowKaiChai Blonde Redhead are the artful dodgers of music's cliches and an indie breath of fresh hair soundbites ALBUM OF THE WEEK > indie rock 23 Blonde Redhead 4 AD YIP. I haven't heard of them either until now. Blonde Redhead are a beloved New
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      • 444 89  -  Joyce Hooi Friends of lounge singer Michael Isaac will stage two shows in his honour, with proceeds going to charity LATE home-grown lounge singer Michael Isaac would have approved. His last wish before he died of lung cancer in Febuary at ace 50 was for
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        506 90  -  Huang Xueling Rock band Anberlin lives the wholesome life, and they're proud of it IN AN industry where so many bands fall prey to the trap of sex, drugs and rock V roll. Florida-based fivesome Anberlin is a breath of fresh air. When Life! interviewed frontman Stephen
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      • 155 90 91.3FM 1. (2) Face Down Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 2. (9) 4 In The Morning Gwen Stefani 3. (5) The River Good Charlotte featuring M. Shadows SynsyJer Gates 4. (1) What I've Done Linkin Park 5. (4) Makes Me Wonder Maroon 5 6. (3) Summer Love Justin Timberlake 7. Give
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      • 638 91 AP Hollywood clubs feel the pressure of boozing underage celebrities LOS ANGELES Hollywood's hottest, trendiest nightclubs pop up as fast as the hair extensions Britney Spears used to attach to her head, and disappear just as quickly as her real hair did. But whether it's the
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      86 92 1 get annoyed when people say, "There's little Rod Stewart with his girlfriend Penny Lancaster". That really gets on my nerves. I am almost sft 2in' Singer Rod Stewart (right) 'Before 30, it's all addition. Love, career, education... add up. At 40, it's all subtraction. Discard the things and
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    • 859 92 LAT-WP The famed reporter Carl Bernstein faced Watergate-like difficulties when he wrote a biography of Hillary Clinton NEW YpRK For Carl Bernstein, the drill was all too familiar: He was hot on the trail of White House intrigue, and powerful forces were trying to discredit his work,
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    • 42 73 WEEKEND BUMPER LISTINGS STAR STARVED IAj^SU 3 AIR TIME things to do Where were the crowds |gJ fT^ What to catch on TV in the coming week at Star Search auditions? IHHm during the school hols page 522,23&26 page 6 HBHHP pageB
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