The Straits Times, 4 October 2007

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 112 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 198/12/2006 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 2007 •m A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • Article
    Lock icon Landmark S'pore-Britain air deal gives SIA a big boost
    615 1  -  Karamjit Kaur It lets airline operate domestic flights in the country and opens up trans-Atlantic route By Aviation Correspondent A LANDMARK aviation deal sealed between Singapore and Britain has opened the lucrative British domestic market and trans-Atlantic route between Britain and
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    Lock icon PM urges UN envoy to press on with efforts in Myanmar
    592 1  -  Leslie Lopez By South-east Asia Correspondent SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday urged the United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar to press on with UN efforts for reconciliation and a peaceful transition to democracy in the crisis-wracked country.
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Golf could be the next big thing for tourism
      1035 1  -  Leonard Lim By AFTER going all out to woo the meetings and conventions segment as well as weekend visitors, chasing the golf tourism dollar could be the next money-spinner for Singapore. The Republic has the potential to be a top golfing
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Teacher won't have to pay $120k in legal fees
      810 3  -  Selina Lum DRAWN-OUT MOTOR ACCIDENT DISPUTE PRIMARY school teacher Jonathan Lock, with his pregnant wife by his side, walked out of court yesterday a relieved man. He will not have to pay the $120,000 in legal fees he had been facing
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    • Article
      Lock icon N. Korea to shut down main nuke facilities by year end
      313 3  -  Sim Chi Yin By China Correspondent In Beijing NORTH Korea has agreed to dismantle its main nuclear weapon facilities by year-end in the latest round of six-nation peace talks here. Pyongyang also said it would provide a "complete and
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      Lock icon New en bloc rules kick in today
      504 4  -  Fiona Chan Changes meant to make sale process more regulated and transparent By Property Reporter NEW collective sale regulations will kick in today a few weeks earlier than many in the industry had expected. The rules, which were passed in Parliament two weeks
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      Lock icon POLISH ENVOY HURT IN IRAQ BLAST
      127 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A casualty being evacuated from the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday that targeted Poland's ambassador to Iraq, General Edward Pietrzyk. The ambassador was wounded when three roadside bombs ripped through his convoy a few hundred metres from the Polish
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  • ASIA
    • MYANMAR CRISIS
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        Lock icon Manhunt leaves residents running scared
        755 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, NEW YORK TIMES Those involved in anti-junta protests are being rounded up by the military Yangon A DAY after UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari left the country, Myanmar soldiers were hunting pro-democracy protesters by warning that they had photographs of those
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        Lock icon Crackdown worsens food crisis, says UN aid group
        267 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Bangkok THE junta's bloody crackdown in Myanmar has onl^ worsened the threat of hungei and malnutrition in the country, UN aid workers anc rights groups say. Food prices spiked aftei the regime jacked up fuel prices in August. The recent
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        Lock icon PM missing from junta photo 'may have died'
        588 7 Soe Win had been treated for leukaemia in Singapore, before his return to Myanmar Yangon AN AILING top leader of Myanmar's junta is reported to have died, on the very day that he was conspicuously absent from a widely published photograph which
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        Lock icon Mid-ranking Myanmar officer 'flees to Thailand'
        187 7 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Bangkok A MYANMAR military officer has fled to Thailand to seek asylum after apparently refusing to follow orders to attack monks, a senior Thai intelligence official said yesterday. Major Hla Win entered Thailand with help from a non-government organisation, and he hopes
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    • CHINA/EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Taiwan's ruling party picks Chen as new chairman
        482 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS Pro-independence President will have a big say in DPP's election strategy Taipei A HIGH-RANKING committee of Taiwan's independ-ence-leaning ruling party yesterday chose President Chen Shui-bian to be its new chairman. The move added an element of uncertainty to the Democratic
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        Lock icon BUS FIRE IN CHINA KILLS 27
        70 8 A suspended bus company manager could have started the fire on this bus which left 27 people dead and 11 passengers injured, state news agency Xinhua reported. The bus burst into flames while heading downtown in Chongqing in south-west China on Tuesday. The manager
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        Lock icon Fukuda brushes off call for new elections to test mandate
        272 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS Tokyo JAPAN'S opposition insisted yesterday on calling elections to test new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's mandate, and demanded a halt to Tokyo's support of the war effort in Afghanistan. But Mr Fukuda told parliament that Japan will continue
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      Lock icon Will wily Vice-President Zeng stay or go?
      1026 9  -  Goh Sui Noi He may relinquish power in return for key posts for proteges: Analysts By Senior Correspondent THE second most powerful man in China today is also the most enigmatic of the top three leaders. He is usually forgotten whenever people talk
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    • EAST ASIA
      • INTER-KOREA SUMMIT
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          Lock icon S. Korea needs to win North's trust, says Roh
          686 10  -  Lee Tee Jong But S. Korean leader is 'satisfied with the outcome' of talks with Kirn Jong II By South Korea Correspondent In Seoul NORTH and South Korea discussed peace and economic cooperation in rare face-to-face summit talks that also showed
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        • SUMMIT SNIPPETS
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            Lock icon PRECIOUS' SOUTH KOREAN DVDS MAKE THE DAY FOR KIM
            143 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS FILM-BUFF Kirn Jong Il's face lit up when he saw a bookcase of 150 DVDs among the gifts presented to him yesterday. The case's top layer held a DVD of the popular South Korean TV series Jewel In
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            Lock icon ROH'S WANDERING HANDS IN THE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT AGAIN
            138 10 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS AFTER causing chuckles in the media centre back home on Tuesday for inadvertently touching the backside of a young North Korean woman during a photo session, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun caused outbursts of laughter again with his
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            Lock icon SEOUL'S TOP CHEFS DISH UP A FIVE-STAR DINNER
            147 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TEN of South Korea's top chefs, including some from five-star restaurants, were brought to prepare their President's state banquet with North Korean leader Kirn Jong 11. The dinner last night was served to 200 people 130 of them North Korean
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          Lock icon North to stop making N-arms, US to work towards full ties
          392 10  -  Bhagyashree Garekar By US Correspondent In Washington THE United States yesterday indicated it will make moves towards full-fledged diplomatic ties with North Korea as Pyongyang announced it will end the production of materials used for making nuclear weapons. And
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon No deal on sharing power, says Benazir
        522 13 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Pakistan's ex-PM also denies graft charges against her have been dropped London TALKS with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf aimed at reaching a power-sharing agreement have "totally stalled", former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said yesterday. Speaking to reporters in London, the
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        Lock icon Red Mosque reopens three months after siege
        272 13 REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Islamabad THE Pakistani authorities have reopened the Lai Masjid or Red Mosque in Islamabad nearly three months after more than 100 people were killed when commandos stormed the compound to end a siege by Islamist gunmen. An earlier attempt to
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      • WORLD QUICKLY
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          Lock icon JAPAN SHIPS FOR MALACCA STRAIT
          95 13 JAKARTA: Japan has donated three patrol ships to help secure the Malacca Strait, Indonesia's military chief and spokesman said yesterday. Rear Air Marshal Sagom Tambun said the ships would arrive in December and were the first to be donated by the Japanese government, Xinhua news
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          Lock icon JAPANESE DOCTOR CAUSES TB SCARE
          80 13 REUTERS TOKYO: About 400 people will be tested for tuberculosis in central Japan after their doctor was diagnosed with the disease, the local government said yesterday. The 70-year-old doctor in Gifu Prefecture, located 270 km west of Tokyo, had been coughing and breathing heavily since
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          Lock icon TYPHOON SET TO HIT VIETNAM
          77 13 ASSOCIATED PRESS HANOI: Disaster officials began evacuating 400,000 people yesterday as a typhoon approached Vietnam's central coast, packing winds of up to 133kmh. Tropical Storm Lekima, named after a Vietnamese fruit, was upgraded to a typhoon yesterday afternoon and was expected to hit the central
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          Lock icon OPPOSITION MP ADMITS FAKE CLAIMS
          126 13 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO: A senior opposition lawmaker, who swept to victory in recent elections after a series of Cabinet scandals involving the ruling party, admitted yesterday that he had submitted 178 million yen (552.3 million) in false expense claims. Mr Kozo Watanabe, a senior adviser
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA/MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon KL delays toll hike decision for fear of voter backlash
        509 15  -  Carolyn Hong But it will have to compensate toll operators if it disallows the hikes By Malaysia Bureau Chief Kuala Lumpur TOLL charges on eight Malaysian highways are slated to increase by 10 per cent next year, putting the government
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        Lock icon No love lost in copyright tussle over Rasa Sayang
        187 15 REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIA is investigating whether it could claim copyright over a catchy song in Malaysia's tourism drive, after a Jakarta legislator accused the Malaysians of stealing the song. Rasa Sayang, which means "Feelings of Love", is claimed by Malaysia as
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        Lock icon BIG DAY FOR SONTHI
        70 15 Thailand's newly appointed army chief, General Anupong Paochinda (left), presenting flowers to his predecessor Sonthi Boonyarataglin at his 61st birthday reception in Bangkok on Tuesday. General Sonthi, who led last year's coup, was officially appointed as Deputy Prime Minister on the same day and will take
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      • Article
        Lock icon Decorated Indonesian official caught taking bribes
        382 15  -  Salim Osman BY Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta EFFORTS to rid Indonesia's judiciary of graft were dealt a heavy blow when a member of a key watchdog group, who had a reputation of being clean, was caught red-hand-ed taking bribes, officials said. Retired public prosecutor
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Japanese PM's wife wins hearts with a ready smile
        482 16 MRS KIYOKO Fukuda, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, is hogging the limelight on Japanese TV. Always wearing a smile, unlike her husband who does not show emotion in public, she seems to be more popular with the voters
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        Lock icon New face, no kissing for woman
        192 16 SHE underwent a ground-breaking operation to restore her face, but doctors fear that Ms Isabelle Dinoire may never be able to kiss again. The 40-year-old divorcee from Valenciennes, France, had a partial face transplant to restore features mutilated when her dog mauled her as
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        Lock icon Bush won't visit Iran varsity
        125 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE UNITED States President George W. Bush is not taking seriously an invitation to visit a university in Iran, the White House said. Mr Bush might have considered the invitation from Ferdowsi University in Mashhad if Iran "was a free and democratic society that
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      24 6 No power-sharing deal Ex-PM Benazir Bhutto says talks with President Pervez Musharraf have stalled but she will return to Pakistan as planned. PAGE 13
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Private security agencies in Iraq under-report shootings
      783 19 WASHINGTON POST, NEW YORK TIMES, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Just 207 incidents reported for 12 months to May; real figure believed to be far higher Washington MOST of the more than 100 private security companies in Iraq open fire far more frequently than has been
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      Lock icon Media-shy former Navy Seal started Blackwater with inherited millions
      304 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS SINCE founding Blackwater USA a decade ago, Mr Erik Prince has gone to great lengths to avoid attention, trying to prevent photographers from taking his picture and demanding that his contractors never speak to reporters. The veil of secrecy
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      Lock icon Banks spare no expense recruiting for Russia
      566 21 REUTERS Big demand for those who know Russian and have local connections London AS INVESTMENT banks flood Russia to cash in on its economic boom, they are laying ever bigger pay packages and bigger posts on the table to lure the precious few
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      Lock icon Thai chefs chilli sauce 'terrorises' London police
      289 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London A THAI chef "cooked up" fears of a chemical attack here when fumes from his eye-wateringly hot chilli sauce led to the emergency services being called out. The Times of London said yesterday that chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon caused an alarm
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      Lock icon Cameron to cast himself as Britain's premier fix-it
      286 21 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Blackpool MR DAVID Cameron was to make a showpiece address yesterday that could make or break his chances of becoming Britain's premier within weeks. The Conservative Party head was to pitch himself as a young, modern and honest leader,
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      Lock icon COCAINE TRADE CRACKED
      76 21 A Colombian marine checking packs of cocaine seized by the navy in the Caribbean city of Cartagena. About 2.2 tonnes of the drug were confiscated on Tuesday. The news came as Washington said that a multi-billion-dollar effort by the US and Mexico appeared to be disrupting cocaine
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      Lock icon Britain races to tap sea power
      785 22  -  Mark Rice-Oxley Wave and tidal systems could meet 20 per cent of its energy needs, helping to cut emissions By For The Straits Times In London BRITAIN is accelerating plans to harness the vast power of the sea, in an effort to generate a
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      424 23 REFORM of the school system in the past few years has been a blur for many students who strained to acclimatise themselves to the rapid chop-and-change. But few could dispute that the changes have been progressive ones in that they are aimed at accomplishing two goals
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      1138 23  -  Barry Desker CRISIS RESPONSE By For The Straits Times nal affairs of one another helped each state to develop its own identity in the first years of the grouping's existence. The primary concern of each member from 1967 was that it should be allowed to forge
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      876 23  -  Sergei N. Khrushchev »THE MAKING OF SPUTNIK By In Moscow ON OCT 4, 1957, my father, then-So-viet premier Nikita Khrushchev, waited anxiously for a telephone call. The Soviet Union's chief designer Sergei Korolev was expected to report back from the Tyuratam launch site (later renamed
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      2860 24 EDUCATION IN SINGAPORE This is an edited text of Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam's speech on Tuesday at the ministry's Work Plan Seminar WE ARE seeing a new quality in education, across the board. It is rippling across our schools, and through our tertiary institutions. ITE created
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      967 25  -  Tion Kwa ►> CHINA'S CURRENCY BY Senior Writer SEVERAL pieces of new legislation concerning China's currency are in the works in Washington. The Senate is trying to consolidate two Bills that aim to address how China handles its currency. Though the House has not yet announced its
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      27 23 US act has no currency Washington's bid to make Beijing "correct" its currency could end up being detrimental to American consumers. PAGE 26 PUNCHLINES tsioW£ji(3WiN6 in pyoN6yAN6
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      113 28 CHATROOM 'CINDY' j »A man, II posing as a jj 21-year-old If student JJ named Cindy M A JJ on MSN r II Messenger II chatroom, approaches II men for money to help U pay for rent, settle a brother's debts or pay for "her" mother's II funeral costs. II
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      392 28  -  IV2 years' jail for... Part of scam involving sob stories to con victims of over $15,000 Khushwant Singh By WHAT'S behind a name like "Cindy"? Scammers, actually who went on to sucker some 40 victims of more than $15,000 on the Internet. One of the sob stories told
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      364 28 A 21-year-old sales consultant tells Teh Joo Lin how he transferred $100 to 'Cindy' after a one-hour chat on MSN Messenger "SHE appeared on my MSN Messenger one afternoon. The girl in the photo on the chat window was not just pretty. She
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      1235 29  -  Selina Lum K.C. VIJAYAN DRAWN-OUT MOTOR ACCIDENT DISPUTE G wants body to find out if he had acted in client's best interest By LAWYER Andrew Hanam arrived in court too late yesterday to hear what the Chief Justice had to say about the
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      428 29  -  Carolyn Quek By MEDIATION is part of the court process and settlements that result from it are binding on all parties, the Court of Appeal made clear yesterday. With that ruling, the three-judge court brought the case of primary school teacher Jonathan Lock
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      Lock icon Insurer ups goodwill offer to $40,000
      468 29 DESPITE being rebuffed once, NTUC Income repeated its offer to compensate Mr Jonathan Lock for what he had to go through. It has upped its original goodwill payment offer of $25,000 to $40,000. A vindicated Mr Lock is still considering the offer. He declined
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      464 29  -  Chong Chee Kin LAWSUIT AGAINST ASIA-PACIFIC BREWERIES By Such potential future business from APB was so alluring that Mr Amin ignored stringent background checks when Chia expressed interest in applying for banking facilities on behalf of the brewery. In particular, Mr
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      687 30  -  Goh Chin Lian Focus of upcoming central committee polls will be on Lim Swee Say who faces his first election as labour chief By AT LEAST four veteran unionists look set to step down from the labour movement's top poli-cy-making body to make way
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      432 31  -  Tania Tan Move to tackle illegal wildlife trade passing through Singapore By OFFICERS from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority are undergoing a 2 1/2-day crash course on identify- ing rare reptiles. Aimed at putting a
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        72 31 AN APPEAL by anime-dis-tributor Odex, against a ruling that denies it access to the list of Pacific Internet users who allegedly downloaded pirated Japanese cartoons, has been adjourned. In an in-chambers hearing at the High Court yesterday, Justice Woo Bih Li granted the adjournment to allow Odex's
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        93 31 A MAN was yesterday jailed for eight weeks for using his mobile phone camera to shoot "upskirt" footage at Novena Square. Maintenance officer Daniel Bay Hoon Heok, 38, pleaded guilty to insulting the modesty of a 29-year-old accounts manager by recording a clip of what
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        72 31 A MAN believed to have been involved in a string of motorcycle thefts was charged in court yesterday. Zulkeflei Mohamed Yatim, 28, is said to have stolen a $750 motorcycle from Mr Muhammad Hazwan Mohamed Hassan at a Sengkang mul-ti-storey carpark on Monday. He is remanded
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        90 31 NATIONAL serviceman Dave Teo Ming, 20, who was charged with being in possession of a rifle and live bullets, has had his case transferred to the High Court. A 20-hour manhunt early last month ended in Teo's arrest with a rifle and
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        110 31 A CONVICTED shoplifter was jailed eight weeks yesterday for stealing two designer bags on two occasions. Victoria Koh Shuen Ling, 33, and freshly out of prison, stole a $1,200 Louis Vuitton bag from the LV boutique at Takashimaya Shopping Centre in August. The following month, she
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        50 31 A TEENAGER involved in a riot at One Fullerton in March was yesterday sentenced to reformative training for having been part of an illegal assembly that caused hurt to three men. Aw Poh Hee, 19, is appealing against the sentence. Bail of $18,000 was offered.
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      359 31  - Bag a PVC banner and tote it around TANIA TAN WASTE not, want not, especially when a simple but clever idea helps save the environment. Residents in the Tanglin-Cairn-hill ward are giving old PVC event banners a new lease of life by transforming them into tote bags. Some 50 women
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      305 31  -  Christopher Tan By Senior Correspondent CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) prices for cars headed south in this month's first tender exercise which ended yesterday after having threatened to breach $20,000 in the last few months. COE premiums for cars up to
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      382 31  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent DOG bites maid. And the owner coughs up more than $3,200. In court yesterday was trading representative Wilfred Tan Boon Haw, 60. As the owner of the mongrel which caused injury to the victim, he pleaded guilty
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      646 33  -  Radha Basu Up from 1 in 3 just five years ago; Tinkle Friend callers need listening ear while parents at work By Community Correspondent THE little girl's call came around 9.30 am on Monday Children's Day. Senior social worker Christina Appadoo had
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      120 33 A group of friends paid tribute to the father of India, Mahatma Gandhi, on his birthday on Tuesday. They went to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hall in Race Course Lane to garland Gandhi's bust. Gandhi played an instrumental role in the campaign that won India its independence from
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        349 33  -  Ho Ai Li By IF YOU have the passion to help students in the Normal course, the Ministry of Education (MOE) wants you. You do not need to sign up as a teacher but will mentor these students, or teach skills
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        402 33  -  Maria Almenoar By THE five integrated programme schools introducing boarding programmes to their students may be joined by a vocational school. Assumption Vocational Institute, in Upper Bukit Timah Road, is looking into having boarding facilities too as part of its revamp. Education Minister
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        506 33  -  Jane Ng By TEACHER Samihah Baswedan, 49, goes to class with a goodie bag filled with stationery and candy which she hands out to get her charges to sit down and come away with at least something from her social studies class. Her
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      569 33  -  Judith Tan By A NEW three-dimensional imaging scanner has made spinal operations safer for patients at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Called the O-Arm, the machine takes approximately 400 pictures in 30 seconds to construct an image of the spine that
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      28 28 How to spot rare reptiles Learning to tell reptiles like the star tortoise apart from its more common cousins helps officers tackle the illegal wildlife trade. Page H4
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      306 35  -  Karen Tan (Ms) IN THE letter, "Private clinics should give details of charges" (ST, Oct 1), Mr Goh Kian Huat asked for greater transparency in clinic charges and bill itemisation so that patients' interests are protected. The Ministry of Health (MOH) agrees fully
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      170 35  -  Dr Adrian Ec Amber Yeong (Ms) WE REFER to Mr Ho Pheng Fong's letter ("Info-sharing would have saved patient a missed date"; ST, Sept 29), which raised the issue of whether updates in patients' particulars could be transferred automatically across medical institutions. We would
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      442 35  -  Peter Chen Slow Hsing I WOULD like to express my solidarity with the people of Myanmar. My heart goes out to them, those inside the country and those in exile, in particular the hundreds of thousands in and outside refugee camps along the
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      188 35  -  M. M. Aung I AM a Singapore citizen born in Myanmar. I am deeply saddened by the outbreak of violence in Myanmar which had led to the death of innocent people. I assure Singaporeans that although the Myanmar people working and living in
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      151 35  -  Lim Jing Jing (Ms) I REFER to the letter, "ICA mistake almost cost maid's boss $5,000" (ST, Sept 28), by Mr Koh Soon Fuei. We would like to clarify that the Immigration Checkpoints Authority (ICA) had, in fact, responded to Mr Koh's family
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      165 35  -  Jenny Koh Geok Hwa (Mdm) »ON THE BUS AND TRAIN I AGREE with Dr Lim Boon Hee ("Vandalism of buses blamed on lax enforcement"; ST, Oct 2) that there is a serious lack of enforcement by the bus and train operators to arrest
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      270 35  -  Lav Ai Lin (Ms) IN THE letter, "Rid Orchard Road of beggars and hawkers" (ST, Oct 2), Mr Nuryusman Mohamed Ibrahim said the prevalence of beggars mars the image of Orchard Road and urged the authorities to take action lest tourists have a
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      282 35  -  Goh Eck Kheng REPORTER Teh Joo Lin, in his story about the Mobilisation Exercise logo ("Are you the one who inspired this icon?"; ST, Oct 1), says that there are plans to use the logo on the cover of a forthcoming book
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      86 35 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimes.com Access to letters online is free. Time to bring an end to ruthless military regime in Myanmar Junta has lost the respect of the people Wanton killings: Bring the perpetrators of such cruel and inhumane acts to justice Vandalism on buses
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      673 36 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS SOCCER Ferguson admits Man Utd stole three points against an excellent Roma side Manchester AFTER watching Manchester United survive waves of AS Roma onslaughts towards the end of Tuesday's match, Alex Ferguson heaved a sigh of relief. The United manager admitted his side
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      499 36 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Stuttgart BARCELONA will need to rediscover their killer instinct if they are to win the Champions League again, coach Frank Rijkaard warned on Tuesday. Barca needed a series of good saves from goalkeeper Victor Valdes, followed by second-half goals from
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      199 36 Group E Olympique Lyon 0 Glasgow Rangers 3 Vfß Stuttgart 0 Barcelona 2 Group F Manchester United 1 AS Roma 0 Dynamo Kiev 1 Sporting Lisbon 2 Group G CSKA Moscow 2 Fenerbahce 2 Inter Milan 2 PSV Eindhoven 0 Group H Sevilla 4 Slavia Prague 2 Steaua
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      163 36 REUTERS Manchester MANCHESTER United midfielder Owen Hargreaves will miss England's European Championship qualifiers against Estonia and Russia next week. He will be out of action for up to four weeks, after having an injection to clear up a knee injury, his club manager Alex
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      564 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS SOCCER Van Persic's goal helps Arsenal pip Steaua 1 -0 for ninth straight win Bucharest HE MAY be the custodian of the flowing, beautiful game, but Arsene Wenger is quite happy to win ugly. Especially if Arsenal manage to grind out
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      Lock icon Usmanov admits he wants to take over Arsenal some day
      408 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS London RUSSIAN billionaire Alisher Usmanov has admitted that he may take over Arsenal. He is the board's sec-ond-highest shareholder with 23 per cent, and had previously indicated that he had no interest in owning the club. However, in
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      402 37 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS Lyon SCOTTISH side Rangers caused a huge upset when they blasted French champions Lyon 3-0 in their Champions League Group E match on Tuesday. Goals from Lee McCulloch, Daniel Cousin and DaMarcus Beasley put Rangers level on
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      344 37 ASSOCIATED PRESS MILAN ZLATAN Ibrahimovic scored two goals to help nine-man Inter Milan beat PSV Eindhoven 2-0, and win their first game in the Champions League this season. The Swede scored from the penalty spot in the 15th minute to break a two-year goal drought
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      477 38 REUTERS Cardiff NEW Zealand will appeal against a two-week ban on Sione Lauaki which will keep the reserve No 8 out of the World Cup quarter- and semi-finals. He was banned on Monday for a dangerous tackle in the final pool game against
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      836 38 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS France coach makes two surprise picks in fly-half Beauxis and full-back Traille Cardiff FRANCE plan to beat New Zealand through a kicking game in their World Cup quarter-final, after the surprising selections of fly-half Lionel Beauxis and full-back
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      792 38 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Marseille ENGLAND coach Brian Ashton has gone for power in his bid to upset Australia in their World Cup quarter-final on Saturday. He has recalled Andy Farrell at centre, and captain Phil Vickery, in a
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        61 38 AGENCE-FRANCE PRESS PARIS: Argentina's goal-kick-er and leading points scorer, Felipe Contepomi, is fighting to be fit to play against Scotland in Sunday's quarter-fi-nal. He is down with influenza. Team doctor Mario Larrain said Contepomi did not take part in yesterday's training session. However, he was
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        71 38 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MARSEILLE: South Africa coach Jake White said yesterday that injured C.J. van der Linde will be fit to face Fiji in the quarter-finals. The prop had picked up a knee injury, and was considered a doubtful starter for Sunday's game. That would
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        73 38 ASSOCIATED PRESS MARSEILLE: Fiji coach Hie Tabua has urged Pacific neighbours and rugby heavyweights, Australia and New Zealand, to play more Tests against neighbouring teams to help raise standards. In a familiar call throughout the World Cup, Tabua added his voice to counterparts
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        42 38 ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME: Former South Africa coach Nick Mallet was named as Italy's next coach yesterday. Mallett, who led the Springboks to 27 victories in 38 Tests from 1997 to 2000, has a reputation for developing weaker teams.
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      Lock icon Student garners support for S'pores Youth Olympics bid
      341 39  -  Jeanette Wang YOUTH OLYMPICS By THE momentum is gathering pace in Singapore's bid to host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010 and it is not all government-led. A website on Singapore's bid, www.sgyoutholympics.com, was created last month by London-based Singaporean Ivan
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      643 39 £100 million in 10 years MOTOR RACING That is how much Lewis Hamilton could earn if he wins the drivers' title, says British PR guru Max Clifford London LEWIS Hamilton is on course to become the highest-earning British sportsman of all time. That is the prediction of British public relations
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      304 39  -  Leonard Lim »SOCCER By BEWARE Bahrain's over-the-top tackles. That is Lions' stand-in skipper Indra Sahdan Daud's warning to his teammates ahead of tonight's friendly against Bahrain in Manama. He said yesterday: "We watched a video of the Bahrain team, and they looked like a
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      226 39 REUTERS Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA has made it mandatory for clubs to field young players in a bid to improve the country's struggling national team. The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) said elite Super League and second-tier Premier League clubs must play at least one
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        51 39 GEYLANG United moved up to sixth position after a convincing 3-0 win over Liaoning Guangyuan in an S-League soccer match yesterday. Syed Fadhil and Fadzuhasny Juraimi scored four minutes apart at the Bedok Stadium, before Hafiz Rahim made it 3-0 in the 59th
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        97 39 SINGAPORE made it two wins out of two in the AFC Under-16 Championship qualifiers, after a 4-0 win over Guam in their second Group E match in Beijing yesterday. Muhammad Muhaymin Salim and Stanley Ng scored a goal each, with captain Muhammad Shahfiq Ghani finding
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        42 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK: The Asian Football Confederation yesterday handed Iraq's Muaad Saleem an 18-month ban, after the defender tested positive for a banned substance during last year's Asian Games in Doha. His suspension began on May 16.
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        119 39 ASSOCIATED PRESS VALENCIA: America's Cup organisers are considering postponing the 2009 edition because of continued legal wrangling over proposed rule changes. America's Cup Management said yesterday that it "is concerned that the feasibility of organising the next America s Cup m Valencia in 2009 has
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      532 40 ASSOCIATED PRESS »SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT Madison Square Garden found guilty, to pay punitive damages New York AFTER being found guilty of sexual harassment, a federal jury in Manhattan ordered Madison Square Garden Isiah Thomas' employer to pay punitive damages. On Tuesday, the jury ruled that
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      711 40 ASSOCIATED PRESS New York MORE than most sports arenas, Madison Square Garden is the palace of a feudal state, and its lords fly the flag of entitlement. They pay no property taxes on most of a square block in midtown Manhattan, thanks to a
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      203 40 REUTERS Fireworks lit up the Shanghai Stadium on Tuesday, when China opened the 2007 Special Olympics, which aims to celebrate the abilities of the intellectually disabled. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor Colin Farrell, film star Jackie Chan and National Basketball Association star Yao Ming were
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      406 40 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS CRICKET Karachi SOUTH African wicket-keep-er Mark Boucher yesterday broke lan Healy's record for dismissals behind the stumps when he claimed his 396 th victim. He stumped Pakistani batsman Umar Gul for 12 on the third day of the first Test against Pakistan at
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      447 40 CRICKET Second one-day international in Kochi, India: Australia 306-6 in 50 overs (M.Hayden 75, A.Symonds 87, B.Haddin 87 n.o. Sreesanth 3-67, Pathan 2-47). India 222 all out in 47.3 overs (R.Uthappa 41, M.Dhoni 58; Clark 2-14, Clarke 2-35, Hogg 3-40). Australia won by 84 runs, lead seven-game series 1-0
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      26 36 Knicks coach loses case Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden are found guilty, and have to pay $17 million in damages to sexually-harassed ex-employee. PAGE Hl3
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      46 37 THEY GOT I GAME For animation and game software companies, to succeed in the US market is to have arrived. In a special page today, we look at some Singapore companies that are working to make their mark in the one market that matters. lip* f^r^^s^
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      38 38 Rugby World Cup 2007 FIXTURES Quarter-finals Saturday Australia v England Live, Ch24, 9pm New Zealand v France Live, Ch24, Sunday, 3am Sunday South Africa v Fiji Delayed, Ch24, Monday, 12.30 am Argentina v Scotland Live, Ch24, Monday, 3am
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      281 39 There are many new millionaires in Singapore who got rich not by buying TOTO or 4D but by understanding the mindset and strategies of the rich. Making money is not difficult if you know how to make your money work for you. The rich have a different money mentality and
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      96 39 TV times BASEBALL MLB Division Series, NL Game 1 Cubs v Diamondbacks (Live, Ch23, 10am). NL Game 1: Rockies v Phillies (Delayed, Ch23, 3pm). Game 2: Rockies v Phillies (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 3am). AL Game 1 Yankees v Indians (Live, Ch23, tomorrow, 6.30 am). GOLF: Korea Open: Day 1 (Live,
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      75 41 We, the family of the late MARY CHEW GEOK NEO Departed on 26 September 2007 wish to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to all relatives, friends, prayer groups, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, prayers, condolences, contributions and wreaths during our recent bereavement. We would also
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      90 41 ATHMA SHANTHI POOJA RAMASAMY SHYAMALA DEVI Departed on 26 Sept 2007 Sadly missed by: Husband: M Vairavan(Selvam) Son:VAhelan(Agi) Daughter-in-law: R Bhavani Daughters: V Durga V Kirthi The family of the late wish to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to all relatives, friends for their prayers, visits, support, condolences, contributions wreaths
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      53 41 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of AMANDA CHUA SOO FERN Departed on 4 October 2006 Her life was earnest, her actions kind, A generous hand and an active mind, Anxious to please, loath to offend, A loving wife and faithful friend. Sadly missed and always remembered by Husband :VijayNadarajah Mother
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      48 41 MOHAN KUMAR RAMARAO AGE: 19 passed away suddenly on 2.10.07, leaving behind loved ones. Father: Ramarao Mother: Saraswathy Sister: Priya Brother-in-law: Pala relatives and friends. Cortege leaves Blk 25, Teban Gardens Rd #11-179 on 4.10.2007 (Today) at 4pm for Mandai Crematorium Hall 4 for cremation spm. Tel: *****037
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      27 41 I Our deepest sympathies condolences to the family of the late William Grant Cowan (Bill Cowan) From The President CowwHee, Members, Managements Staff of The British Club
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      30 41 With Deepest Sympathy I Heartfelt Condolences II to the family of the late I REC MOHAN KUMAR RAMARAO on 02 Oct 2007 From: Commander and Staff of Air Force School
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      22 41 7th Anniversary In Loving Memory of John Quek Jee Tong Departed: 4/10/2000 Deeply missed always remembered by friends of Eagle Service Asia
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      23 41 9th Anniversary In Loving Memory Of PANSY LANGE Departed 4 Oct 1998 Gone but not forgotten May Her Soul Rest in Eternal Peace
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      141 41 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." I 1 Psalm 23:6 FRANCISCO ARTHUR RICHARD (Arthur Boy) Age: 58 was called home to be with the Lord on 30 September 2007, leaving behind loved
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      35 41 With Deepest Sympathy Condolences to Mr Mrs Philip Tan on the demise of their beloved son DAMIEN TAN YEE KOK Departed on Ist October 2007 From: The Management Staff of Master-Tech Diving Services Pte Ltd
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      27 41 3rd Anniversary In Loving Memory Of CHAN TECK AI SERENE Departed 4 Oct 2004 Deeply loved missed by Husband James Chua, Daughter Cassandra, Family All Loved Ones.
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      27 41 In Loving Memory Of Our Parents 23rd Anniversary 12th Anniversary PRSOUNDRA PANDIAN PANDIAN THANALETCHMI Departed 4.10.84 Departed 11.10.95 Dearly missed and always remembered by children loved ones.
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      39 41 Ep 3rd Anniversary **3 In Loving Memory of THONG YAM LIN Departed: 3rd October 2004 Father, 3 years have passed and we still miss you very very much. 1— It seems time cannot heal the pain of loss... wS
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      172 41 Mdm koh Chua Tee WIDOW TO THE LATE MR TAN JUEH KHOON EMBARKED PEACEFULLY ON HER NEXT GREAT JOURNEY 3 OCT 2007 WE LL MISS HER IN THIS LIFE, PRAY FOR HER GRACEFUL PASSAGE, AND HOPE TO BE REUNITED WITH HER ONE DAY IN HEAVEN. SONS DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW GRANDCHILDREN Tan Hung
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      50 41 IST ANNIVERSARY In Loving Memory Of R. Siva Kumar (Boy) Always Remembered By: Family, Brothers, Friends And Son Yogeswaran s/o Sivakumar Saran s/o Sivakumar Prayer will be held on 04/10/07 (Thurs) 7pm at: Manmatha Karuneshwaran Temple (Former Kallang Gas Works) Please treat this as a personal invitation Call Siva: 9062-0397
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      56 41 LAKSHMI SAMBASR^ Departed 25 Sep 2007 Our heartfelt thanks to all relatives, friends and colleagues for their condolences, prayers and help during our recent bereavement. Athma Santhi Puja will be held on 7 Oct 2007 (Sunday) at 7.15pm at Sri Sivan Temple, Geylang East Aye 2 Please treat this as
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      81 41 J Ist Anniversary L-o|t In Loving Memory of Jordan Yin Chu Tong Departed on 4TH October 2006 I Greatly missed and fondly remembered by children I Max, Yvonne and AMa; brothers Rev. Canon Roy Tin, Dr Jack Tin, Dr Jahan Yin and Joey Yin, friends and loved ones. "He suffered
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      97 41 ROM Athma Shanti Pooja We, the family of the late MADAM S. KANNIAMAH (Wife oflate Mr S. P. Muthiah) Departed on 20 Sep 2007 wish to express our thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends and colleagues for their kind assistance and condolences during our bereavement. Karumathi Prayers will be held
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      38 41 Memory wanders as shadows fall Back, to the days of happiness, Datjs beyond recall. A vision comes before us, So calm, so dear, so sweet, Of her lips now silent And whose lids are closed in sleep, i
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        7569 42 TRANSACTION DATE: OCT 3, 2007 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL 'OOO DAY HIGH LOW NET P/E M CAP SMIL 0R3.5 34 101 3C 42 195 32 14 8 1 35 24 18 61 17 5 12 5 43 5 126 34
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        1542 42 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY T RAD ED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E SMIL 3C 41.; 31 16.; 70.; 22.; 46.; 13.; 44.; IOC i;.; i; 16.; 2; 9C 48 19.; 19.; 10; 69 19.; 38 24.; 2.3 13 47.; 23.; 2;.; ii.; 6; 21.; 4;.; 20 17 43.;
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        52 42 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY IRADED SALE 0R'000 HIGH LOW P/E Sl.lll 1080C 500C 100C 1200C 1250C 388C 119 6065 Diamonds 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** 6170 SPDRS 2640 6235 STIETFIOO... US115 US500C US100C US1120C US1250C ....380C -2C 5
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      357 43 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS Sept data shows mixed outlook with prices rising but more new jobs New York SERVICES sector growth in the United States fell more than expected last month, according to a report released yesterday. The report has painted a mixed picture
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      175 43 The United States financial industry has announced 87,962 job cuts this year, 75 per cent more than in the whole of last year. Of these, 35,830, or 41 per cent, were tied to housing market problems In the latest signs that trouble is expected to drag
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      37 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 17,199.89 (+153.11 points) "Japanese share prices closed up 0.9 per cent at a two-month high, as worries about the global fallout from problems in the US mortgage sector continued to recede.
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      40 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 27,479.94 (-719.81 points) Hong Kong stocks fell 2.55 per cent after an erratic session, as investors locked in profits amid mounting fears the market is set for a correction after a record-breaking rally.
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      19 43 Last Friday's close: 5,552.3 (+142.9 points) »The markets are closed for China's week-long National Day holidays.
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      23 43 Sydney S&P ASX 200 AFP Yesterday's close: 6,659.9 (Unchanged) Australian stocks closed flat, as investors consolidated gains after record-breaking runs in resources stocks.
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      30 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,366.96 (-1.76 points) Malaysian share prices closed flat, down 0.1 percent, after Wall Street's retreat overnight triggered a bout of consolidation across regional markets.
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      29 43 REUTERS Yesterday's close: 17,847.04 (+518.42 points) The Sensex rose 2.99 per cent to its 10th straight record close, led by gains in Reliance Industries and Infosys Technologies.
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      34 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,451.59 (-13.36 points) »Indonesian share prices closed 0.5 per cent lower, as investors opted to lock in gains following the market's strong rally over the previous three days.
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      28 43 AFP Yesterday's close: 850.58 (-2.85 points) Tha i share prices closed 0.33 per cent lower, as investors locked in profits in energy and oil stocks.
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      222 43 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: U,7 b4.uZ Oct3 Mlgreen 0.51 Sscendasreit 0.87 CapitaComm 0.52 CapitaLand 4.91 CapitaMall 0.90 Chart SemiCond ...0.49 CityDev 2.86 ComfortDelGro 1.25 Cosco Corp 1.99 Creative Tech 0.14 DBSGrp 9.09 Datacraft 0.15 FSN 2.07 Genlntl 0.65 HK Land 3.15 Hyflux 0.28 IMH 3.03 ISH 1.95 lardine
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      50 43 Oct3 Memstar 1,040,703,000 Sinostar 316,727,000 El-Nets 177,490,000 Lian Beng 69,147,000 Sapphire 59,828,000 SGX MBL eCW*****5 51,962,000 MediaRing 48,515,000 Yongnam 44,463,000 Gen Intl 42,564,000 Fuxing 40,426,000 Chart SemiCond 38,667,000 Jasper 38,498,000 Oculus 36,697,000 SingTel 32,621,000 JiutianC 32,179,000 Chip EngSeng 31,013,000 LCDev 30,828,000 Sunningdale 28,983,000 China Energy 27,906,000 AddvalTech 27,622,000
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      141 43 Oct3 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS :OREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT )F FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling lust dollar 1.3040 1.3200 Ian dollar 1.4760 1.4940 iuro 2.0860 2.1100 (lalaysian ringgit* ..0.4338 0.4345 <Z dollar 1.1160 1.1410 Sterling pound 3.0080 3.0420 JS dollar 1.4740 1.4910
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      2740 43 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: OCT 3,2007 HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY 140 37 3779 ASL Marine W*****1 35 20 2036 AdvSCT W*****9 47 0 5 1674 Allgreen RBeCWD71D1D 15 1 5 2835 Allgreen RBeCW*****B 50 5 36 8798 AscendasSGAeCW*****3 56 5 5 9092 Asia Env W*****4 13 5 9 5
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      516 44 NEW YORK TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES San Francisco ONLINE auctioneer eßay has finally admitted it paid too much for Internet phone company Skype two years ago, as fears of a new dot.com bubble come to haunt. On Monday, eßay wrote down the value
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      149 44 SKYPE co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, 41, has quit as chief executive of the Internet phone company. He and a handful of other shareholders will miss out on an extra US$l.2 billion (Ssl.B billion). They will, however, still get US$53O million that eßay is paying
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      381 44 BLOOMBERG NEWS Regulator limits overseas holdings to 20% in draft rules submitted to Cabinet Hong Kong CHINA may prevent foreign investors from taking control of domestic brokerages, a setback to Wall Street's ambitions to tap the world's fastest-growing stock market, people familiar
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        105 44 ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFURT: Deutsche Bank said yesterday it would write off some 2.2 billion euros (554.6 billion) related to the United States mortgage morass, but that gains from asset sales and tax credits would still let it post a third-quarter profit of
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        Lock icon FLEXTRONICS TO MAKE MICROSOFT'S NEW ZUNE
        137 44 REUTERS WASHINGTON: Microsoft's new line-up of Zune digital media players will be made by Singapore-based contract manufacturer Flextronics International instead of Toshiba, which made the first Zune. Microsoft corporate vice- president J. Allard told Reuters on Tuesday that Microsoft opted to go with Toshiba's
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        94 44 FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON: JC Flowers, the private equity group that has expressed interest in Northern Rock, has secured about £15 billion (Ss4s billion) that it plans to use for a takeover. Most bidders who expressed interest in buying part or all of
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      541 45  -  Bryan Lee US firm sees $1.48b in money transfers going to different parts of the world from Spore By REMITTANCE giant Western Union yesterday opened its biggest branch in the world right here in Singapore, as it eyes the rapid growth of intra-Asian money
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      524 45  - Give back to society and reap good returns Chua Hian Hou By COMPANIES that give back to society, whether by helping the disabled and impoverished or improving the environment, can reap good returns, said a corporate social responsibility (CSR) expert yesterday. Ms Jude Mannion, chief executive of Robin Hood Asia,
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      422 45  -  Fiona Chan By Property Reporter TENSIONS ran high at the already prickly Horizon Towers hearing yesterday, as lawyers fought over who would have the last word. The heated exchanges lasted less than an hour but they were more hostile than any of the previous
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      566 46  -  Goh Eng Yeow Recent market turbulence drives spike in trading of covered warrants By Markets Correspondent THE volatile trading conditions of recent weeks have sparked such a surge in covered warrants trading that total turnover this year could almost double that of 2006
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      Lock icon Profit-taking ends market's record run
      390 46  -  Alvin Foo STAKING STOCK By JUST when a hat-trick of record closes was on the cards yesterday, profit-tak-ers moved in to get some cash on the table. The big cash-out started in the afternoon, reining in a rally that had sent the Straits Times Index
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      61 46 REUTERS STOCKS in the United States declined slightly early yesterday. But a set of data, which showed continued growth in the services sector, helped limit losses. After three hours of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 33.65 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 14,013.66. The Nasdaq
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      Lock icon Bio-Treat's new shareholder buys stake from ex-chairman
      330 46  -  ALVIN FOO 810-TREAT Technology's new investor has said it acquired its 29.6 per cent stake from the family trust of the controversy-hit water treatment firm's former chairman. The deal has made the investor one of Bio-Treat's biggest shareholders, but further details about the
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        93 46 DBS Bank's Islamic banking unit yesterday announced that it has received a banking licence from the Central Bank of Bahrain. The Islamic Bank of Asia's (IB Asia's) first office in Bahrain is expected to open by year-end, a development hailed as a "new milestone"
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        72 46 SINGAPORE'S second-largest telco, Star Hub, yesterday named Mr Mike Reynolds as company president a newly created post with effect from Jan 1. Mr Reynolds, 54, is Star Hub's head of integrated product and marketing. Star Hub chief executive Terry Clontz will remain in his post. Mr
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        Lock icon TELECHOICE INKS 2-YEAR TELCO DEAL
        72 46 MAINBOARD-LISTED Tele Choice International, a provider of telecommunications services, yesterday announced a new agreement with local telco Star Hub. The two-year deal will provide Star Hub with a range of services, including the sale of mobile handsets and accessories, inventory planning, after-sales services, procurement and
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        Lock icon CHEMOIL TO BUILD PANAMA TERMINAL
        120 46 MARINE fuels supplier Chemoil yesterday announced plans to build a new storage terminal in Panama. The terminal, located in the centre of Cristobal, will take two years to construct and will have a total capacity of 245,000 tonnes. It is expected to eliminate the Singapore-listed
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        Lock icon SAPPHIRE RIGHTS ISSUE RAISES $42M
        71 46 SESDAQ-LISTED Sapphire Corporation yesterday announced that it raised $42 million from a rights issue it initiated to fund new investments. It has earmarked $38 million to complete the purchase of a 49 per cent stake in Kingston Grand that, in turn, will own 40 per
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      31 88 WIN! AGNES B. ACCESSORIES WORTH $1,200 REDKEN HAIR PRODUCTS WORTH $1,160 The iconic Hermes scarf turns 70 and there are now more ways to wear it than ever
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      400 89 There are three stories about fashion accessories in this week's issue of Urban. And they all say one thing: The accessories business is not one to be sniffed at. Our cover story is on scarves, as it's been 70 years since French luxury label Hermes introduced its iconic
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      291 91 It started out as a simple enough dress code: black and gold. You'd think it'd be a hard one to mess up. After all, nobody restricted it to casual, cocktail, elegant or formal. But revellers at one high-profile party last weekend just could not turn up in simple, tasteful
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      99 91 VENUE MOVING SALE: Venue is moving from 01-07 Palais Renaissance. From now till Oct2l, all merchandise is going for up to 90 per cent less. Grab designer stuff like Puma Black Station by Alexander McQueen and Christy Turlington now. NEW ANTEPRIMA STORE: Italian-based handbag label Anteprima Plastiq has opened
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        280 91 There was a time when having individualistic style meant having to shop overseas be it in the fashionable neighbourhood of NoLita in New York City or the labyrinthine Chatuchak market in Bangkok. But things are a-changing. Just take a peek down Haji Lane or the corridors of Far
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        222 91 For a country as sunny and humid as Singapore, denim fever is searing hot with specialist denim shops sprouting all over like mushrooms in dewy weather. Tomorrow, VGO Corporation, which runs sporting goods chain World Of Sports, will be introducing another player called Bread And Butter. Located at
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        175 91 Yet another Italian fashion designer has hopped onto the mobile phone bandwagon. As part of a strategy to expand his lifestyle products, Giorgio Armani (right) has teamed up with Korean electronics giant Samsung to develop a mobile phone and a luxury LCD television. This follows three
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        640 91 Have a problem with the way you look? Don't sweat it. E-mail your queries to Angeline Neo at sturban@sph.com.sg QI have a couple of satin dresses in mind for my company's annual dinner and dance. But I'm concerned that they might look too school prom. What should I
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        214 91  -  Emily Lek These two head-turners could well have stopped traffic at ONE" 15 Marina Club Festival La Mer at Sentosa last Saturday Andrea Radrizzani, 33, chief executive of a sports media business What are you wearing? My shirt's from DKNY, but I can't remember how much it was. I
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        159 92 Metal doesn't always have to be harsh. This sweet clutch will add an air of femininity to your outfit. $99, from Che Che New York, 01 -128 The Centrepoint Looking for a colour that suits you perfectly? From neutral shades to dramatic hues, San Francisco-based make-up brand
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        179 92 Slip on a piece from Italian watch brand Cerruti 1881 's latest collection, Odissea Sportiva a perfect combination of class and sportiness. $658 to $768, from Gallery The Heeren, 02-03 A; 02-100 Suntec City Mall and all other authorised retailers A little colour goes a long way
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      503 94  -  MICHELLE TAY Autumn leaves have fallen and soon you'll hear old winter's song in the northern hemisphere of the world, that is. But even in Singapore, coats no longer languish on store shelves as the increasingly upwardly mobile urban male travels more for work and play. Good coats
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      265 95 Master runway style for less. ANGELINE NEO shows you how to pull off lumberjack checks Catwalk inspiration: Chanel (left) Why you'd want the look: Seen on the runways of Marc Jacobs, Kenzo, Max Mara and Jill Stuart, Celtic chic lends the charm and pedigree of old money. Think
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      482 96 Reuters For the first time, Indian designers are included in Paris Fashion Week, a nod towards the country's fashion industry aris Fashion Week, the last and most 1 prestigious stop on the world's fashion circuit, has opened itself up to Indian designers for the first time as it
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      889 97 The Hermes silk scarf has long been recognised as an icon of luxury. As it celebrates its 70th birthday this year, Urban finds out what makes these square cloths a symbol of pedigree t's no mere square piece of cloth the Hermes scarf is a talisman of
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      941 97 ASHLEIGH SIM; Stretch your wardrobe and even pack light when you go away. Here are 10 ways you can get a new halter top or stylish headgear with just a coupfe of loops and folds of a square cloth from French luxury label Hermes
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      1536 99 Singaporeans are embracing the era of the cult sandal and putting comfort before fashion. Even premium prices aren't getting in their way, finds NOELLE LOH Singapore has racked up many lofty achievements over the years in terms of infrastructure and economics, but Urban can reveal a little-known, down-to-earth
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      544 100 Beauty tips at your fingertips just go to these fashion forums, says EMILY LEK or your daily dose of beauty news, click on to online beauty forums. Fashionistas are now hogging forums like Flowerpod and Cozycot to yak about everything from hair extensions to pedicures. They post threads
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      432 101 AFP Thai princess presents her first caKvalk collection at Paris Fashion Week aris Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana's 1 grandmother, Queen Sirikit of Thailand, was a devoted customer of French couturier Pierre Balmain. And that relationship was celebrated with her granddaughter's first catwalk collection in Paris last Saturday night. The
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      423 102  -  SHAAN SETH Why suffer black and boring laptop bags when there is such a wide array of chic ones? Carrying a laptop can be a real burden forget the weight, it's the fact the cases come in boring blacks and blues. But now, fashionconscious road warriors and trendy
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      131 102 Some fancy laptop bags to consider ST PHOTOS: Acme Mode's The Tote with quilted satin lining, foam padding and leather straps and handles, $479, from www.acmemade.sg Nerdbag by Airbaq Craftworks comes in material from recycled air-mattresses and recycled rafting boats, $389 (15 inches) and $429 (17 inches), from
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      337 103  -  FOONG WOEI WAN POSH NOSH You're sleepless in Singapore and craving some cheesecake. But it's past closing time at your usual dessert haunts. These days, your best bet might be 2am: dessertbar, a dessert and wine lounge in Holland Village that, yes, opens till 2am. This bar
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      246 103 A friend spoilt me rotten recently when he went to Europe, tracked down an outlet of Parisian patisserie shop Laduree and got me a box of what he said were the world's best macaroons. Oh, they were good. So good with so much luxurious flavour jam-packed into two
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      104 103 This is posh chocolate spread. Confectioner Chocolat Factory has these jams in four flavours pear, orange, chestnut and mint. After a cautious consultation with the shop girl last week, I went with the mint which she said would be smooth and refreshing. She was right. That clean smell
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      433 104  -  PRADEEP PAUL PERSONAL TRAINER Pi fates can ease the back pain that results from slouching at our desks for hours Most office workers suffer from back aches and, in the worst case, spondylitis (arthritic pain in the spine) as a result of slouching in their chairs, straining their
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      602 105  -  anSeth THEBAGPAGE/Sho Celebrity hairstylist Shunji Matsuo is a pro at multitasking: He conducts this interview while inspecting the hairstyles created by students who have taken part in a hairdressing exam. Matsuo is wearing a printed shirt from Italian shirtmaker Andrea Palombini, dark blue pants he picked up in
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