The Straits Times, 17 June 2007

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  • 18 1 thesundaytimes JUNE 17,2007 90 pages in three parts MICA(P) 199/12/2006 Bf A SingopotT Frws Holdings publication O\J Cents
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  • 548 1  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi TOP OF THE NEWS PEOPLE panicking that they may have missed the boat in the surging property market had some reassurance from the Government. yesterday. Minister for National Development Man Bow Tan said the housing sector was being closely monitored
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    • 636 2  -  Tracy Sim Jocelyn Lee STH DROWNING CASE IN 3 WEEKS Beach pub patron fell into sea. disappeared after brief struggle THE treacherous waters off Pasir Ris Park claimed another victim yesterday just some months after two young boys drowned there. Odd-job worker
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    • 838 3  -  r> Nur Dianah Suhaimi Number of those charged with leaving without permission is up from 40 in 2004 to 77 last year THE number of bankrupts caught leaving the country without permission has been rising steadily. Last year, 77 bankrupts were charged, up from 68
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    • 582 4  -  Cheryl Tan New hygiene rules for cockle shucking spell higher costs for suppliers; many close down NEW hygiene rules that require cockle suppliers to shell out big money on special shucking premises have forced some firms to shut their shops. Shucking must now be done
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    • 615 6  -  Tessa Wong Cases have doubled at some law firms, but there's not enough new blood in conveyancing THE workload for conveyancing lawyers has gone through the roof as the hot property market runs them off their feet Cases have more than doubled at some
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    • 505 6  -  Jessica Urn THE prospect of making big bucks in the property boom has lured former estate agents back into the game. Experts reckon that about 15 per cent of agents recruited by big firms recently comprise old hands ready to have another go
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    • 803 8  -  Chong Chee Kin Interior designer's wobbly testimony on $20,000 invoice to NKF dealt a fatal blow to Durai's credibility THE man instrumental in bringing down former National Kidney Foundation chief T.T. Durai was none other than his old pal, interior designer David Tan Kee
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    • 355 8  -  Ctwnc Ch«« Kki THE flip-flop testimony from interior designer David Tan could possibly leave him facing criminal charges, including perjury, say legal experts. Mr Tan, an old friend of T.T. Durai, was initially touted as the prosecution's star witness but ended up siding
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    • 934 10  -  Melissa Sim Melody Zaccheus Long hours spent over hot stoves, plus the battle for customers lead to flared tempers 1 THEY were pate for 10 yean, shared lunches, bought each other coffee, and vteU«d each other's homes. Then a plastic chair got in the way and friendship turned
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    • 43 12 ST PHOTQ: MODELS IN WEDDING GOWNS waiting to go on stage for tht bridal fashion show by Yvonne Croatto at IN Cats Classified annual The New Paper Wedding Show held at Central in Clarke Quay yesterday. LIM SIN THAI
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    • 847 12 National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan spoke about the booming property market last night. Here are edited extracts from what he told reporters after the launch of a dance festival in Tampines Q Following the announcement of the land sales,
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    • 742 13  -  Great Eastern a Life U great /feature by Many Singaporeans are beginning to discover it is possible to receive your pay cheque even when you are unable to work. BG Mudeliar catches up with so*^ of them to file this report. Sandy Sim, 38 and
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    • 318 14 AN "ANG MOH" kneeling down with hands outstretched begging for cash is not something you see every day in Tampines But that was the eye-catching sight confronting residents and shoppers last week when Hungarian Toth Daniel (right), 63, decided to replenish his funds The burly beggar
      STOMP/SASHA TAN; ASHLEIGH SIM  -  318 words
    • 400 14  -  Andrea Ong ST interactive portal's Club Stomp offers its members privileges like a personal profile page, shop discounts TO STRENGTHEN ties with its year-old community, Stomp The Straits limes' interactive portal is launching a new membership programme. Club Stomp is now open
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    • 86 15 AP AUTHOR SALMAN RUSHDIE, 59, btst known for his controversit' novtl The Satanic Verses, was knighted ytsttrdiy. Ht made it to Queen Elizabeth IPs birthday honours lift for hit services to literature. In 1969, Rushdie was the target of a fatwa after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah
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    • 616 15  -  Chua Chin Hon $1B SHANGHAI BUST Operation described as city's 'biggest underground bank' CHINA BUREAU CHIEF BEIJING THREE Singaporeans and a mainland Chinese national have gone on trial for what the media here described as Shanghai's "biggest money-laundering bust". The four of them, working
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    • 644 16  -  Nirmal Ghosh Offer to ousted premier comes as thousands join rally against military-installed govt THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK PRIME Minister Surayud Chulanont yesterday said he was ready to negotiate with ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, as thousands ventured out in the rain for another rally
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    • 165 16 Bernama, AFP BANGKOK THAILAND'S Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said yesterday that militants in the south are now attempting to attack the government both within the country and overseas. Speaking during his weekly programme broadcast on state-run television TNA. General Surayud said the government believed
      Bernama, AFP  -  165 words
    • 315 16 The Star/Asia News Network, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl was injured in a bomb explosion at a bus terminal in Kuala Lumpur. Police said it could be the work of militants from southern Thailand. Investigations were ongoing. Aqilah Nadiah Zamzar suffered
      The Star/Asia News Network, Bernama; THE STAR/ASIA MEWS NETWORK  -  315 words
    • 554 17  -  Sim Chi Yin ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■1 The accused CHINA'S SLAVE SCANDAL Dad whose son vanished at a train station lurches between hope and despair CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING HE IS out there, somewhere. The hope of seeing his long-missing son again is pushing Henan native Wang Qiusheng to scour
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    • 236 17 AP, Reuters SEOUL NORTH Korea has invited the UN nuclear watchdog to visit, in what could be a first step towards implementing a sixnation agreement intended to end its nuclear programme. The move came as Pyongyang said that its frozen funds in a Macau bank
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    • Article, Illustration
      18 18 Why are thieves making off with anything from manhole covers to signs and even undersea cables?
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      14 18 Why is the newly formed Water Safety Council heading to Western Australia?
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    • 29 18 A look ahead at the news events of the week, here in Singapore and abroad, and what they mean for you. FIND OUT IN TOMORROW'S STRAITS TIMES
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    • 645 18  -  Kwan Weng Kin Flamboyant boss of Japan's nursing-care giant Comsn loses credibility after public funds fraud JAPAN CORRESPONDENT TOKYO HIS business can't be more sober providing services to thousands of elderly Japanese who cannot care for themselves. Yet one-time disco promoter Masahiro Origuchi, 46, dashes around
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    • 201 18 Reuters WASHINGTON THE United States is imposing new export controls on high-tech goods ranging from aircraft to space communication systems that could be used by China's rapidly expanding military. The new regulations, announced by the Commerce Department on Friday, also create a
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    • 316 19 FATAH, a secular nationalist group which has monopolised power since the *****, is battling Hamas, a radical Islamist group that entered electoral politics in January last year, when it won parliamentary polls. Formed in 1987, Hamas wants to establish an Islamic state in the whole
      REUTERS  -  316 words
    • 400 19 Reuters, AFP Hamas says it has no intention of fitting up Palestinian territory after seizing control of Gaza Strip DAMASCUS THE leaders of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas have ruled out setting up separate Palestinian states, and called for dialogue with the rival Fatah movement after
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    • 145 19 Reuters WASHINGTON STEM cells taken from muscle tissue may be used to build new blood vessels for transplants, a study has found. Researchers in the United States grew adult stem cells from muscle tissue on biodegradable tubes for a week. The tubes were
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    • 494 20  -  Lee Sze Yong GOLDEN MELODY AWARDS MC Hotdog wins Best Mandarin Album at awards known as the Chinese Grammys MEDIA REPORTER EDGY rapper MC Hotdog last night won the biggest prize at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards, dubbed the Chinese-language Grammys. Receiving the trophy for the
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    • 94 2 INDEX asia Thai PM offers taks (i < 11■ •r ai Surayud ready to negotiate with Thaksin to defuse growing I -< »liti< al tensions in the country. 16 Property buys bear fn* ...27 JHHHHHmiiiA that's real in US politics?.. 34 Sate to race at ngM 39 My phone, my
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    • 1302 22  -  Lorna Tan TRAVEL POLICY CLAIM FINANCE CORRESPONDENT THINK you are not a fraudster? You are driving along, obeying the law, when a car rams you from behind. Since it is not your fault, your insurer will claim the cost of repairs from the other driver's
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    • 390 22 MAKING a false insurance claim may seem merely naughty to some. But this form of deception is far more serious. Depending on the circumstances, it can amount to a criminal offence. Offenders can be jailed for up to seven years. Despite these stiff sanctions,
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    • 334 22  -  Henry Hebeler Diversify your funds for a stress-free retirement AUTHOR BECAUSE .the future is uncertain, it is very important to hold a portfolio that is widely diversified. That is, you should divide your investments into different kinds of securities so that you might have some money in
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    • 379 22 AP US stock prices shoot up after inflation fears subside NEW YORK WALL Street barrelled higher on Friday after the week's most-anticipated economic reading indicated that inflation, excluding the price of gas, remained tepid last month. In the three days of trading from Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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    • PROPERTY BUYING GUIDE FIFTH IN A 10-PART SERIES
      • PROPERTY
        • 232 24 A stone's throw away from Orchard Road, but without the sky-high prices of the prime district Newton Circus has caught the eye of many a buyer and offers an eclectic mix of sparkling new condominiums and quaint black-and-white bungalows. Nicholas Fang and Ng Sook Zhen explore
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        • 314 25 CAIRNHILL IN THE Cairnhill area, the old is juxtaposed against the new, with the latest Cairnhill Crest just across the road from a much older The Cairnhill. But this picture is far from complete. The area is fast evolving with developments such as Hilltops Apartments still under
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        • 311 25 BALMORAL THE Goodwood Hill loop at Balmoral offers a glimpse back in time. Large colonial bungalows painted simply in monotones are nestled in lush greenery, giving the area a peaceful, nostalgic feel, with a tinge of faded grandeur. Beyond the bungalows, low-rise condominium developments such
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        • 271 25 CAVENAGH APTLY named Monk's Hill for its serenity and quietude, this area is almost a temple of peace next to busy Newton Circus with its throng of diners and downtown traffic. The tranquillity is further enhanced except perhaps when school's out by Monk's Hill
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        • 296 25 TAKE a cheerful mix of bungalows, boutique apartments and yet-to-be-built condominiums such as Newton One, and you have GUstead, a mature residential area hinting at changes to come. Newer gems such as Newton 18 and Gilstead 38 sprinkle the area, but the larger, slightly
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    • 310 26 MY SPACE "MY FIANCE, Malvine, and I are laidback people and we wanted to have a home where we could return to every day to relax and chill out Thus, we chose a resort theme for our apartment as it makes
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    • 1052 27  -  Lorna Tan ME MY MONEY Besides buying waterfront units in Singapore and Sydney, Hong Leong Finance head also invests in stocks FINANCE CORRESPONDENT IF THE president of Hong Leong Finance, Mr lan Mardonald, could turn back time, the 51-year-old would have bought a bigger
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    • 713 28  -  Paul Hang YOUR PERSONAL ADVISER: CAREER Q lAM an American who has been working in Singapore for just over five years. I joined my current employer in California and when the opportunity surfaced, I grabbed it and transferred to join the Singapore
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    • 821 29  -  Lie Chin Chin •ERSONAL ADVISER: FINANCE Q PURCHASED a $675,000 condominium unit with my husband in 1995 under a tenant-in-com-mon agreement. The proportion of Central Provident Fund contribution towards the purchase of this condominium is unequal -his share being two-thirds and mine
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    • 381 30  -  Ltonf Sn Hian Q AS A minority shareholder of a few listed companies, I have come across company notices with the headings "mandatory share buyback" and "intent to deXisC 1) What should I do regarding these notices? 2) What are the consequences if I do
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      • 90 31 Resume cheat The Italian chief executive of the Intercontinental Hotels Group's operations was shown the door after he was caufht lying about his educational qualifications. The 46-year-old was exposed only because he was being screened by his employers who were planning to make him a board member. He
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        89 31 Disgraced British researcher The former head of Singapore's National Neuroscience conduct in at Singapore in a stinging article published in the top British medical journal Lancet He implied that Singapore regulators have different standards from those in the West and do not respect individual rights. The commentary criticised
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      • 79 31 Jemaah Islamiah l«ad«r* Two top leaders of South-east Asia's Jemaah Islamiah nabbed last Dujana (above), 37, is said to be the Al-Qaeda-linked group's military commander, with a hand in a string of bloody bombings including the 2002 Bali nightclub attack. Zarkasih, 45, described as the "emergency
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        70 31 F1 driver assured himself of a place in history by just getting behind the wheel of a Formuli One carthe first black driver to do so. But the 22-year-old rookie's ambitions clearly go beyond that, and last Sunday, was well on the way to achieving them as he
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    • 2291 31  -  Chua Chin Hon Fed up with algae-infested lakes, smog-filled cities, and rivers coloured black, red and green by chemical discharge, ordinary Chinese are fighting back in a growing tide of 'green dissent' IN WUXI AND XIAMEN. EASTERN CHINA SOME time on or around May 25, a
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    • 579 32 CLUBS and bars are next to become mandatory smoke-free zones from July 1. This must make die-die-must-have smokers feel like social lepers. Besides their fast dwindling public space, there's no knowing how many households also ban smoking indoors by offending parents and siblings. They get
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    • 876 32  -  Roger Maynard AUSTRALIA CORRESPONDENT SYDNEY DISPATCHES LOCALS said it was the worst storm to hit my part of the world in more than 30 years, and I was only on the fringe. The cyclonic winds and heavy rain that lashed the Australian
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    • 727 34  -  Alfred Sitw THAT is the question that football fans must be asking after Star Hub last week raised subscription fees for its sports channels. Subscribers were told on Monday they will soon hava to fork out $25 a month $10 more to subscribe
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    • 672 35  -  Richard Jolly FOOTBALL managers can be judged on their signings. Newcastle managers always are. So who is the first player Sam Allardyce spent his transfer budget on? That's right Joey Barton. A man whose transgressions range from the idiotic, such as baring
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    • 290 36 AFP RAFAEL Nadal plans to cope with his shock Queen's Club exit by cheering his friends in the Real Madrid team as they try to win the Spanish League title tonight The Spanish tennis player, 21,
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    • 444 37  -  Its auditors find up to $200,000 cash cheques may be unaccounted for Terrence Voon CUESPORTS Singapore has been rocked by new allegations of financial mismanagement Up to $200,000 in cash cheques may be unaccounted for. This was revealed by president Subhas Anandan, following the association's
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    • 400 37  -  Terrence Voon F()K almost four hours on Friday night, Singapore's badminton squad fought for a victory that would earn them a spot in the top division of the Sudirman Cup for the first time. After batting aside Sweden, Taiwan and Germany, only Japan stood
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      • 54 37 AP FORMER Giro d'ltalia cycling champion Ivan Basso received a maximum two-year doping penalty from the Italian cycling federation on Friday. He acknowledged involvement last month in the Spanish blood-doping probe, and also confessed that he had thought about doping, although he never actually
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      • 51 37 AP ENGLISH businessman Mike Ashley increased his stake in Newcastle to 77 per cent on Friday to take financial control of the English Premiership soccer club. A billionaire who made his money in sportswear shops, Ashley bought the 28.01 per cent shareholding owned by chairman Freddy
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      • 40 37 AFP MARIN Cilic of Croatia and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France were given wild cards into the Wimbledon main draw. Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker make up the tno of non-British players given main draw wild cards.
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    • 526 38  -  Tay Cheng Khoon EDITOR AT LARGE (SPORTS) MARDAN Mamat was given the far bigger space, and a large picture of himself went with his article in last Wednesday's The Straits Times. His article was headlined provocatively: Mardan to raise funds for himself. And yet,
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    • 671 38  -  Terrence Voon They have been accused of cheating in charity game by NS Resort club FOUR amateur golfers are being hauled to court, for allegedly cheating in a charity tournament here last year. The National Service Resort and Country Club (NSRCC) is taking legal action
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    • 288 38 You are not going to learn this overnight and falling over as your legs get tangled up is almost inevitable. However, once you get good enough, the pain will be repaid tenfold. It is impossible not to look extremely cool criss-crossing the skates
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    • 431 39 Reuters, AP INDIANAPOLIS FORMULA One carried out its first experiment into the feasibility of night races on Thursday. It ran test cars under lights at the 4.1-kilometre Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which hosts today's United States Grand Prix. An International Automobile Federation
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    • 715 39  -  > Terrence Voon i idgestone sees no problems, citing its experience in Malaysia FORMULA one tyre-maker Bridgestone Motorsport is confident that night racing in Singapore will be safe. But it will be a new challenge, says the company's head of Fl track engineering operations, Kees
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    • 678 40 AP, AFP Cabrera fires 71 on a tough second day to take the US Open lead OAKMONT IT WAS the closest thing to a day of misspent golf, a day when the players waded through weeds and crept behind bunkers that looked like benches.
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    • 490 40 AP, Reuters OAKMONT NO 72ND-HOLE collapse for Phil Mickelson at this year's US Open. No 72nd hole for him, period. Mickelson and his bad wrist were dumped out of the Open by Angel Cabrera's birdie on his last hole late on Friday. The American
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    1151 40 TAY CHOON LIM Age: 75 Passed away peacefully on 15 June 2007. Dearly missed by loved ones. Wife: LimChaiEng Sons: Daughlersinla* Raymond Tay Thian Hee Patricia Ong Peck Geok Michael Tay Thian Yam Anna C.hua Daughter Son-in-law. Linda Tay Suan Kheng Wong (.hian Loong Grandsons: Granddaughters: Benjamin Tay Yu
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    • 34 40 CORRIGENDUM Re: Condolence advertisement for Mr William Tan Ah Stong in The Straits Times on 16/06/07. The company's name should bo Ricon Private Limited and not as published The advertiser apologises for t\ie error
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    • 209 42 BIGWIGS from the Internet world such as the founder of popular online virtual world Second life will be in Singapore this week to speak at the iX Conference 2007. The two-day event organised by the Singapore Inf ocomm Technology Federation will be
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    • 801 45  -  Serene Goh After living in Singapore for 16 years, Tokyo native Kyoko Saeki has developed a craving for teh tarik, chee cheong fun for breakfast and spicy-and-sour fish curry with prata late at night She's also learnt to say "never mind lah" to Singaporeans 7 infamous reputation
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      • 204 45  -  Heng Cho Choon YOUR report, "Bra-zen appeal" (ST. June 12), brings attention to the concern of students from China's Chongqing municipality, who believed that wearing bras could lead to breast cancer. The death rates from breast cancer are the highest in North America and
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      • 229 45  -  Margaret Mary Chan Mvi Thyt (Ms) 1 WAS at the children's section of th*» Choa Chu Kang branch of the National Library Board (NLB) one Sunday afternoon when I saw a member of the library staff approach two young women who were reading aloud
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      • 315 45 LAST Sunday, on my way home by train, I saw three girls in their late teens board the train at Bugis MRT station. Instead of moving to the centre of the carriage, they planted themselves right in front of the door, blocking the way of
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      • 124 45  -  Andrew Scow Chwee Guan I REFER to the report, "Nightspots woo tertiary students with easy credit" (The Sunday Times, June 10). It was reported that 70 per cent of clubbers at nightspots are tertiary students. This raises two concerns: young people getting into debt, and the
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      • 171 45 WE REFER to the letter, "No sleep for elderly residents'' (The Sunday Times, June 10), by Ms Ann Ah Tee. The Housing Board shares the writer's view that noise from HDB shops should be kept to the minimum, especially during late night hours. For example,
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      • 374 45 I REFER to the letter, -Quitline ads on right track" ClYie Sunday Times, May 27). We would like to thank Miss Shirinderjit Kaur for affirming the ad shoving a grandfather and his grandchild at a playground, with the grandfather testifying how Quitline had helped him quit
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    • 358 48 HERE'S a list of things you can do to make this Father's Day and the rest of the month a special one for Daddy dearest FOOD What: Father's Day Buffet Lunch with Asian and Western favourites like saahimi, shucked oysters, signature roast prime rib and honey glazed
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    • 682 49 IHT He also invented the city's taxi meters and carries a gun on his walks. Meet Thailand's eccentric minister BANGKOK As Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom enters the twilight of a long, distinguished career, it turns out that it was not his numerous inventions that produced the biggest headlines the
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      126 50 Judge: Florida judge Larry Seidlin, 57 Case: Ruling over the dispute in February this year about where the late celebrity, Anna Nicole Smith, should be buried. Controversy: During the six-day hearing, he occasionally made or e-liners and cracked jokes, but his coup de farce was when he cried
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    • 127 50 Judge: Los Angeles judge Case: The 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial at which Simpson was Controversy: It was felt at that time that Ito had allowed his courtroom to be. turned into a media circus, although he strenuously denied it The chaotic scenes outside the courthouse were
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    • 1081 52  -  Lee Sze Yong Kampong Glam has come alive with new shops and cafes to rival Holland Village in the hip quotient CALL it the Kampong that has gone Glam. Come to Kampong Glam on a warm Sunday afternoon and you can chill out at an alfresco cafe such
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      500 53 Blu Jaz Cafe 11 Bali Lane; Open: Mondays to Thursdays, noon to midnight; Fridays: noon to 2 am; Saturdays: 4pm to 2am; dosed on Sundays; Tel 6292-SBOO live jazz band lovers will adore this psychedeliccoloured restaurant-bar frequented by office workers in the area. Local musicians perform in
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    • 674 54  -  Huang Xueling Dog-friendly eateries offer mouth-watering dishes for pooches and their owners LIKE all businesses, the pet-cafe one can also be a dog-cat-dog affair, but that has not deterred a newcomer to set up shop. Pawtobello, which opened in Mohamed Sultan Road on June 9, is
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    • 679 54  -  Dawn Lim IF YOU'RE going downtown to check out the Great Singapore Sale, maybe have a meal by the waterfront and catch a performance at the Singapore Arts Festival that's on now, be prepared to encounter a little show-stopper of your ownWhen businesswoman Win nifred
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