The Straits Times, 2 March 2008

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  • 20 1 thesundaytimes MARCH 2, 2008 94 pages in three parts MICA (P) 116/12/2007 ttV A Singapore Press Holdings publication O\J Cents
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  • 624 1  -  Ben Nadarajan MANHUNT FOR MAS SELAMAT ONE face, sent out to the 5.5 million cellphones here. As the search for Jemaah Islamiah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari continues, the three local telcos yesterday chipped in to spread the alert. From noon, Sing Tel,
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    • 47 1 A /111 t#^ 1 v 2-1112-*****12-B i j T"^<"' ~^r V'A"^--W*- 5 «hJi EL.,} 2st- He grew up in a Mas Selamat MMS Crime Library I Kaki Bukit kampung shocks some people gets into the act I NEWS: PAGE 2 NEWS: PAGE 3 ►NEWS: PAGE 4 I
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    • THE HUNT FOR MAS SELAMAT
      • 1573 2  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi Singapore's most notorious man on the run is also no stranger to prison escape attempts THE man who is now the target of Singapore's most massive manhunt had an ordinary childhood. Growing up in Kaki Bukit, Mas Selamat Kastari
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      • 506 3  -  Jamie Ec They got the message. Did you? Most wanted fugitive's photo and a text message from the police going out to all subscribers WITH nearly everyone in Singapore owning a cellphone that can receive "picture messages", the police decided to use this
        DESMOND LIM, LIM CHIN PENG, NG SOR LUAN  -  506 words
      • 250 4  -  Tan Dawn Wei BINTAN ARREST Mas Selamat Kastari being escorted by the Indonesian authorities in Tanjung Pinang, Bintan, on Feb 4, 2003. The Singaporean was picked up by police while on a bus with his wife and children. He was carrying a fake identity
        ABDUL AZIZ HUSSIN, LIM CHIN PING; INTERPOL, SPF; TANG WEE CHEOW  -  250 words
      • 312 4  -  Chen Meiyue CRIME Library has joined the search for Singapore's most wanted man. Last night, volunteers from the group that helps search for missing people went to 51 MRT stations and six bus interchanges to put up a total of
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      • 626 6  -  Chong Chee Kin But overnight search by Special Operations Command officers and Gurkhas yields nothing BUKIT Batok Nature Park was bursting with police activity on Friday night and into the wee hours of yesterday morning. But the overnight search for Mas Selamat Kastari lasting
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      • 273 6  -  Teo Cheng Wee THE escape of terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari is a setback for Singapore, but one that Foreign Minister George Yeo is confident the country can bounce back from. Speaking to The Sunday Times at a grassroots event in Hougang last
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      • 270 6  -  Alex Liam Chen Meiyue WHO'S afraid of fugitive terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari? Only a few, going by what 30 people told The Sunday Times yesterday. Most of them felt that the security agencies were on top of the situation. "I am
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      • 352 6  -  Mavis Toh FROM Angola to the United States, newspapers around the world have reported on the escape of and search for Singapore's most wanted man. Three days after Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari disappeared from the Whitley Road Detention Centre, major newspapers around the
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      • 1609 8  -  Carl Skadian The escape of Mas Selamat Kastari shocked and alarmed Singaporeans. As the manhunt enters its fourth day, some are resigned to how he'll never be found NEWS EDITOR THE first sign if you could call it that that something had gone wrong at
        DESMOND LIM; NG SOR LUAN  -  1,609 words
    • 1118 10  -  Mavis Toh Number of jaywalkers killed up from 22 in 2006 to 28 last year-14 of them were aged above 60 THE young do it, those with kids in tow do it, and even the elderly do it, sometimes tragically. They are the legions of jaywalkers.
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    • 183 10  -  Mavis Toh MAN jaywalks and is knocked down. Motorist gets the blame. This burden of responsibility is behind motorists' frustrations with the "heck-care" attitude of reckless jaywalkers. The Sunday Times spoke to 10 motorists. One of them, Mr Jack Cho, 35, said: "Even if the pedestrian is at
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    • 412 11  -  Shuli Sudderuddin Talks held at Fairer Court to promote financial services to residents after estate's $1.34 billion collective sale WHERE there is money, businesses will pursue it. So it is not surprising that at least two financial players, Citibank and IPP Financial Advisers, have
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    • 419 12  -  Lorna Tan Recent CPF rule changes will help divorced women get their fair share from sale of matrimonial home FINANCE CORRESPONDENT DIVORCED couples have benefited from recent changes in Central Provident Fund (CPF) rules, which allow for a more "equitable" distribution of their CPF
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    • 746 13  -  Samantha Eng Some parents induced births to avoid having their babies arrive on Feb 29 CORRINE Chow might have been born on Feb 29 this year, but she was delivered at 11.35 am on Feb 18 instead. Her parents, both
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    • homefront
      • 41 14 UPGRADING plans for Hougang Central were announced by Foreign Minister George Yeo at a grassroots event yesterday. More carparks and a two-storey building in which fresh produce and cooked food will be sold are in the pipeline.
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      • 31 14 BURSARIES were handed out to 80 students yesterday by the Singapore Indian Development Association and 40 other Indian organisations. About $550,000 will be awarded this year.
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      • 22 14 A SOFTWARE glitch which led to problems with bus fare deductions from ez-link cards yesterday has been rectified.
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    • Article, Illustration
      728 14  -  Jamie Ec The tenants, all foreigners, moved in late last year and are packed into 17 rooms carved out with partition boards IT IS a house of 100 tenants in Geylang. No, that's not the title of the latest drama serial on TV but an extreme
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    • 881 15  -  Nur Dianah Suhaimi Two dormitory blocks for 12,000 workers coming up less than 20m from Urn Chu Kang cemetery THEIR neighbour is a sprawling cemetery with thousands of graves. Not quite an ideal place to live in, you say? But in six
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    • MALAYSIA ELECTIONS
      • 806 16  -  SUNGAI SIPUT (Perak) Perak constituency has nothing but smiles for its local hero, who has been the target of much heckling elsewhere AFTER more than a week of campaigning around the country, the phrase "there's no place like home" has taken on new meaning for veteran politician
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      • 624 16 Unlike many politicians' scions, Mr Ishwar Nahappan (right) left his father's party MIC to join another. This is an edited excerpt of his statement on joining DAP, circulated on the Net MY FATHER, Senator Tan Sri Athi Nahappan, a Cabinet minister in Tun Hussein
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      • 362 16  -  Hazlin Hassan MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALATERENGGANU A DAY after campaigning in Kelantan, which the ruling coalition hopes to wrest back from the opposition, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is confident of holding on to another hot state. The state of Terengganu, he said, is likely to stay
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      • electionsippets
        • 114 16 The Star/Asia News Network IPOH The battle for votes in several constituencies in Perak has turned to comparisons of the size of candidates' homes. The Democratic Action Party (DAP) started by distributing fliers describing how large the homes of local Barisan Nasional leaders were.
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        • 96 16 Bernama PEKAN In a move aimed clearly at garnering more support for the ruling coalition, the government yesterday launched a website that allows people to air their opinions to the Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said the website www.warkahuntukpm.com.my "letters for the
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        • 114 16 The Star/Asia News Network KOTA BARU Barisan Nasional yesterday unveiled a manifesto for Kelantan that focuses on giving more to non-Malays in the state, which it wants to win back from Parti Islam SeMalaysia. The four-year plan addresses key issues such as vernacular education, economic
          The Star/Asia News Network  -  114 words
        • 101 16 KUALA LUMPUR The Election Commission yesterday said it was not illegal for candidates to solicit funds from overseas. Companies or individuals, it added, could donate as long as they did it openly and transparently, reported Nanyang Siang Pau. A Democratic Action Party candidate who
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    • 992 18  -  Sim Chi Yin As China picks up the pieces after its worst winter storms in decades, The Sunday Times visits a largely rural county in south-western Yunnan province and discovers a simmering bitterness on the ground CHINA CORRESPONDENT WEI KIN COUNTY (Yunnan) and we didn't," sighed a
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    • 419 19  -  AMSTERDAM AP, AFP Dire consequences for country if movie is screened, govt warns THE Dutch government has stepped up pressure on a right-wing politician to drop plans to broadcast an anti-Is-lamic film, warning that it could provoke attacks against the Netherlands. Prime Minister Jan
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    • worldfront
      • 76 19 AP LAS VEGAS A man is critically ill after having stayed in a motel room in which several vials of a deadly toxin, ricin, were found. Las Vegas police said yesterday there was no apparent link to terrorist activity. But what the ricin was
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      • 60 19 AP ISLAMABAD Pakistani police yesterday formally charged top Taleban commander Baitullah Mehsud with plotting the Dec 27 assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. Mehsud is the commander of Tehrik-e-Tali-ban, an umbrella group of Islamic militant groups linked to Al-Qaeda. He is believed to be based in
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      • 92 19 AP PASCO (Washington) What happened to faking a cough? Police here say a man had his Mend shoot him in the shoulder so that he would not have to go to work. When he first spoke with police, Daniel Kuch claimed he had been
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      • 116 19 Reuters BEIJING China has arrested two more people for posting nude photos of Hong Kong pop celebrities on the Internet, state media said yesterday. The two were sentenced to five days of detention for spreading at least 10 photos of singer-actor Edison Chen in
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    • 869 20  -  Paul Zach Millions of Americans take a shine to leading Democratic contender CLEVELAND (Ohio) CASE Western Reserve University medical student Lei Lei is among millions of Americans who are going colour-blind. She is one of a growing army of voters putting aside race and, in her case, gender
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    • 498 20 Reuters, AP LONDON PRINCE Harry returned to England yesterday from a tour of duty in Afghanistan that has had jihadist groups baying for blood and calling for stepped-up attacks on British troops there. His four-month deployment in Helmand province was cut short after news leaked out on the
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    • 550 20  -  Kwan Weng Kin JAPAN CORRESPONDENT TOKYO DON'T all grandparents wish their grandchildren would visit them more often? Japan's Emperor Akihito was no different from other doting grandparents when he expressed a desire to see his grandchild, Princess Aiko, six, more frequently, while speaking to
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    • 327 20 NYT, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON THE US Air Force, in a stunning upset against Boeing Co, has awarded a US$4O billion (Sss6 billion) contract to a partnership between Northrop Grumman and the European parent of Airbus. This puts a critical military contract partly
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    • 410 21  -  Peh Shing Huei MM Lee leads Singapore delegation on week-long visit to three Gulf states DUBAI MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew kicked off his week-long visit to three Gulf nations yesterday at one of the Arabian Coast's most impressive and ambitious projects
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    • SUNDAY PEOPLE
      • 185 21 AP XUE Nai Yin (left), the man accused of killing his wife and abandoning his three-year-old daughter, will be deported to New Zealand, the US Justice Department said last Friday. New Zealand media said the process might take two weeks. Six Chinese
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      • 191 21 IT WAS a huge family row at a board meeting that led Hong Kong property billionaire Walter Kwok to take sudden leave of absence from his company. Media reports yesterday said Mr Kwok, the CEO of Sun Hung Kai, had clashed bitterly
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      • 120 21 AFP A WOMAN who once dreamt of being a ballet dancer has been elected head of Italy's national employers association. Ms Emma Marcegaglia, 42, known as the "Steel Lady", won 95 per cent of the vote last week to head Confindustria. Women make
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 96 2 INDEX Living with the dead Dormitories for foreign workers are tucked away in remote corners of Singapore. Now, two of them are coming up next to a cemetery. 15 Easing divorcees' woes 22 Rags-to-riches president 29 Everton on the rise 37 Mind control onscreen 40 Students into business 42 Eola
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    • 741 7 A Ministry of Manpower Newsletter WORKING is a regular newsletter by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). In this issue, we showcase efforts to make Singapore's workplaces safer and healthier. Building workplaces with high level of safety and health standards helps MOM fulfil our vision to develop A Great Workforce; A
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 633 21 Bangkok Colombo Auckland Brisbane Los Angeles Johannesburg Busan Cairo Perth Kuching Manila Guangzhou Rome Phuket New York Madrid Singapore Today: Partly cloudy, Business showers with thunder f Woodlands Jurong Central District Changi in the late morning and afternoon over many Thunder- Thunder- Thunder- Thunder- Thunderareas storms storms storms storms storms
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  • invest
    • 323 22  -  Josh Peters Why dividends may speak much louder than earnings THE stock market never seems to get the respect it deserves. It either gets too much credit partying like it is 1999, so to speak or too little, the bear market of 2001-2002. As far as I can
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    • 1146 22  -  Lorna Tan Recent CPF changes allow for a more equitable distribution of the matrimonial home and let the ex-wife keep a roof over her head FINANCE CORRESPONDENT DIVORCING couples come under even greater emotional strain when they try to sort out who gets
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    • 204 23 Reuters wallstreet NEW YORK US STOCKS tumbled on Friday as another round of weak economic data added to recession fears and a record loss at insurer AIG underscored worries about more write-downs in the financial sector. The major indexes fell by
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    • 235 23  -  Lorna Tan IN DECIDING who gets what, the law requires any division of matrimonial assets to be just and equitable. Courts weigh certain factors when determining how assets should be split. Matrimonial home Contribution of each spouse: The starting point is the financial contribution that each party
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    • 1404 24  -  Lorna Tan ME MY MONEY To get there, he invests in value stocks and unit trusts that generate steady income streams FINANCE CORRESPONDENT WHEN it comes to managing his retirement money, Mr Ben Fok prefers to ensure that his principal sum
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    • 1283 26  -  Jessica Cheam HiapHoe A good urban plan must have impact and give a sense of excitement, says Jeffrey Ho, executive vice-president of home-grown Surbana Urban Planning Group, which has won global planning awards HOME-GROWN Surbana International Consultants, which used to be part of the
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    • Charmed circle
      • 248 27 Bartley Road Current prices AT THE end of last year, homes in the Bartley area averaged $543 per sq ft (psf) in price. While there are too few projects in the area to allow an accurate comparison of average prices over time, those projects with more
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      • 241 27 Lorong Chuan Current prices PRICES in the area around Lorong Chuan and Serangoon Avenue 3 climbed almost 50 per cent on average last year, according to data from Savills Singapore. They are now about $710 per sq ft (psf), from $480 psf the year before. But prices
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      • 228 27 Marymount Current prices CONDOMINIUMS around the future Marymount MRT Station saw an average price increase of 35 per cent last year. Prices rose from about $576 per sq ft (psf) to $777 psf last year, according to data from Savills Singapore. Thomson 800 at Thomson Road is
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      • 216 27 Mountbatten Current prices LOCATED near the former Kallang Stadium site and the interim campus for the School of the Arts, Mountbatten is an up-and-coming estate, but it has few condominiums. Apartments at nearby Tanjong Rhu and Meyer Road, however, are going for between $1,000 and
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      • 255 27 Current prices THE site for the upcoming Dakota MRT Station lies smack in the middle of an HDB estate, with few private homes immediately nearby. The Government, though, may be trying to further develop private housing in the area, given the release of
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    • 714 28  -  Ang Kirn Lan VOL ERSONAL ADVISEI NANCE 3 AM from Malaysia. My grandfather, a Malaysian, died '■six years ago. According to his self-made mil, his properties were to be listributed among his six sons. His eight daughters were not givm
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    • 392 28  -  Evelyn Teo YOUR PERSONAL ADVISER: CAREER Q FINISHED my junior college education in 2005. I was unsuccessful in my university application, so I joined the workforce in 2006. I, however, still wish to further my studies. I would like to know if local
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    • 436 28 "TO CREATE a sense of space and openness in my apartment, I replaced the walls with nine glass panels. My master bedroom wall, for instance, was hacked away and, in its place, two glass panels and a glass door were installed to give my
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    • 1462 29  -  Lee Tee Jong Never-say-die attitude marks meteoric rise of South Korea's top leader SOUTH KOREA CORRESPONDENT IN SEOUL AS A boy, he collected garbage and sold rice snacks to put himself through night school. He often went hungry, when even the beggars who were his neighbours had food
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    • 629 30 THE recent spate of young people dying in car accidents is depressing. In the past three months, in three separate crashes, six young lives were lost. All the victims were in their late teens or early 20s. Last Sunday, another car with young people inside went off
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    • 1376 30  -  Warren Fernandez His courage reaffirms belief in journalists' role as intermediaries DEPUTY EDITOR I REMEMBER April 22, 2005 well. It happened to be my birthday. After a family dinner, I returned home and logged onto the office computer network, to look at the stories lined
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    • headliners
      • 80 31 Jl leader on the run Interpol issued an urgent global alert to its 186 member countries last Friday, two days after the detained leader of the Singapore branch of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist network escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre. Posters of the fugitive have
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      • Article, Illustration
        65 31 Pulled from warfront Last Thursday, American news website Drudge Report leaked out a secret: that the 23-year-old and third in line to the British throne had been on combat duty in Afghanistan for the past 10 weeks. The leak led to a decision to pull the prince out
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      • 54 31 Ex-Thai prime minister Ousted in a military coup in September 2006, the popular political figure returned to Bangkok last Thursday after 17 months in self-exile. Some 2,000 supporters turned up to welcome him. He was whisked from the airport to the Supreme Court, where he was charged with
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        47 31 Top woman golfer The women's world No. 1 golfer who dethroned Annika Sorenstam last year is the favourite among a field of 78 to clinch the inaugural US$2 million (Ss2.B million) HSBC Women's Champions, on from last Thursday to today, at Tanah Merah Country Club.
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        83 31 Fugitive dad nabbed in US The world's media splashed photos of three-year-old Qian Xun dubbed "Pumpkin" found abandoned at a train station in Melbourne last September. The body of her mother, Anan Liv, 27, was later found in the boot of a car in the family's New
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    • 1741 31  -  Bhagyashree Garekar U.S. PRESIDENTIAL POLLS Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want i relook at Nafta. Analysts are not too sure if it is an open-and-shut case of political posturing US CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON IT WON'T be fair weather for free trade this year.
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    • 2820 32  -  Shashi Tharoor This abridged essay is taken from Shashi Tharoor's latest book, The Elephant, The Tiger And The Cell Phone. The writer, a former United Nations undersecretary-general and the author of several books, gave a speech on the same subject at the Nanyang Technological University last
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    • 51 31 S>Us(p Q dp(X6f Tamil Murasu IMMleEfflJlt wMBMm m "^A^ 3^v 3m M 111 liLZf^Ziil aC^Hncrr^ra^ m t IMv"' *J M I J 111 lipis!f# l|l .t=—i«*«=^*i'- —as g .^s B^MP^^l pa" I 111 M. llankoowan (left) with Tamil r^ I Hs^'^^^cT^Tn^^^TE/ B fpCY^O^) Tiger leader Prabhakaran i^^^HL^^l^i^H ■111 ■W^ffPfffW |^°^-h^
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    • 602 33  - Just no stopping ochoa Lin Xinyi HSBC WOMEN iAMPIONS (FEB 28-MARCH 2) 'Despite rain and errant shots, Mexican extends lead to 8 shots NOT the rain. Not even the sizzling start by closest rival Annika Sorenstam could stop world No 1 Lorena Ochoa yesterday at the US$2 million (Ss2.B million)
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    • 1452 34  -  Rohit Brijnath HSBC WOMEN' lAMPIONS (FEB 28-MARCH 2) Tournament details WHAT HSBC Women's Champions WHEN Thursday to Sunday WHERE Tanah Merah Country Club, Garden Course PRIZE MONEY USs2m (Ss2.Bm) FORMAT Strokeplay, no cut TICKETS Single-day pass: $30 Tickets at Sistic outlets
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    • 1025 34  -  Jeanette Wang HEAD to head, the world's top man and woman golfers were almost on par where performances were concerned last year. Dollar for dollar though, Tiger Woods' and Lorena Ochoa's winners' cheques differed by a long shot. American
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      958 35  -  Rohit Brijnath HSBC WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS (FEB 28-MARCH 2) Turning the Garden Course into pplfing's THERE, in the vast inky darkness of the early morning, you can see them in the distance, their lights flickering, and motors grumbling, like some squadron of visiting UFOs. It is 5.45 am, the beginning
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    • golfsnips
      • 49 35 AMERICAN Kirn Mi Hyun became the second player to withdraw from the tournament. She was on 12-over 156 after her opening two rounds. On Friday, South Korean Kirn Joo Mi pulled out after hurting both shoulders. She had carded a 79 in the first round.
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      • 109 35 SINGAPORE'S lone representative, Amelia Yong, 16, carded an eight-over 80 for a three-day total of 233 yesterday. The St Joseph's Convent Secondary 4 student bogeyed on six occasions and also had one double-bogey. "I didn't do too well, but I had fun," she said. "It
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      • 136 35 AT GOLF events, the limelight almost always shines on the players. But at the inaugural HSBC Women's Champions Caddies' Night on Friday at the Ritz Carlton, the bag men also received their due recognition. None more so than Englishman David Brooker, who has been
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    • 606 36  -  Wang Meng Meng Gunners lead but only just, as United crush Fulham to reduce gap LIKE a boxer against the ropes, Arsenal took repeated blows and were on the brink of defeat. But, like true champions, they never cowered, wavered or surrendered.
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    • 359 36 AFP LONDON FRANK Lampard was sent off after just 36 minutes, but Chelsea were home and dry by then 3-0 up at West Ham United. The England man started the spree with a 17th-minute penalty against his old club, after Anton Ferdinand had fouled Salomon
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    • 252 36 PREMIER LEAGUE Weekend Results Arsenal 1 Aston Villa 1 Bendtner 90 Senderos 270g Birmingham City 4 Tottenham Hotspur 1 Forssell 7, 59, 81 Jenas 90 Larsson 55 Derby County 0 Sunderland 0 Fulham 0 Manchester United 3 Hargreaves 15, Park 44 Davies 720g Middlesbrough 0 Reading 1 Harper 90
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    • 252 36 AFP LONDON Olympics chief Sebastian Coe (right) is trying to persuade Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson to take charge of a united British football side for the 2012 Games, The Times reported yesterday. The former Olympic champion middle-distance runner first broached the
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    • 1109 37  -  Rob Hughes AFP Everton's work ethic keeps them within sight of Champions League soccer HEART OF FOOTBALL IS LIVERPOOL, the football city, in blue eclipse? The Premier League table today shows Everton occupying fourth place, with Liverpool fifth but outside the
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    • 414 37 AFP LONDON THE mounting pressure on Avram Grant was reflected in an uncharacteristically emotional outburst on Friday. The Chelsea head coach hit back furiously over the criticism he has faced in the wake of the club's League Cup final 1-2 defeat by
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    • 283 37 LONDON IT IS confirmed: The English Premier League is the most lucrative in world football. According to a list published by France Football magazine on Friday, eight of the top 10 earners in world football ply their trade in the English top-flight competition, reported
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    • 550 38  -  Leonard Lim Li wins opening singles, but China's women rally to take world crown LI JIAWEI got Singapore off to a rousing start against China in the final of the World Team Championship yesterday. The 27-year-old overcame the odds to stun China's reigning singles world
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    • 347 38 BASKETBALL NBA: Toronto 111 Indiana 122, Boston 108 Charlotte 100, Atlanta 99 NY Knicks 93, Cleveland 92 Minnesota 84, Chicago 91 Washington 97, New Orleans 110 Utah 98, Houston 116 Memphis 95, Dallas 115 Sacramento 106, Denver 110 LA Clippers 104, Golden State 119 Philadelphia 97, Portland 119 LA
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      • 87 38 AFP TESTIMONY given by baseball star Barry Bonds in 2003 was unsealed on a judge's orders on Friday and showed evidence of two positive private drug tests for elevated testosterone. Details of a 2001 test were in the transcript of Bonds' testimony to a
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      • 70 38 AFP AMERICAN Brian Davis fired a three-under 67 to take a one-shot lead over Australian Matt Jones at the halfway stage of the Honda Golf Classic at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Davis had a 36-hole total of eight-under 132, while Jones also posted a 67 for
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      • 93 38 Reuters AFTER setting an opening partnership record and declaring their first innings on 583 for seven, South Africa also posted a wicketkeeping record on the second day of the second cricket Test against hosts Bangladesh in Chittagong yesterday. With two catches behind, wicketkeeper Mark Boucher
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    • 429 38 AP BEIJING AS THEY prepare to host the Olympics an event whose purpose is to push human limits the Chinese are trying to do what man never has: Control the weather. With five months to go before the Summer
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    • 277 38  -  Alan Lim Text and pictures by Alan Ong, 60, businessman Height: 1.71 m Weight: 62kg Exercise regimen: I started playing badminton with some Mends long ago. But, eventually, I was the only one who showed up on court.
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    • 110 36 Playing Today Bolton Wanderers v Liverpool (Live on cn27,9.25pm) Bolton midfielder Gavin McCann is a doubt with a back injury. Liverpool vice-cap-tain Jamie Carragher is available again following suspension. Fellow defenders Martin Skrtel (ankle) and Daniel Agger (metatarsal) are nearing returns from injury. Ukraine forward Andriy Voronin (ankle) is out
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    • 185 38 BASKETBALL Big 12 Conference: Kansas State v Kansas (Live, Ch23, 10am). CRICKET Commonwealth Bank Series, Ist final: Australia v India (Live, ChllO, 11.15 am). South Africa Tour of Bangladesh: 2nd Test, day 3 (Live, ChlO9, noon). ICC U-19 World Cup: Final (Delayed, ChllO, 9pm). GOLF LPGA HSBC Women's Champions: Day
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  • Obituaries
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      167 94 "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. Jr* He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads St me beside quiet waters." Psalm 23:1, 2 > EVELYN PEREIRA (GIRLIE) Age: 80 was called home to be with the Lord on 1 March 2008. Beloved wife
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      148 94 jF'TTje Lord is my Shepherd, I shall nof% be in want.... and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23 THENG HOCK LENG Age: 85 was called home to be with the Lord I on 1 March 2008, dearly missed and I fondly remembered by loved
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      140 94 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" Psalm 23:6 ADELINE LIANG KWEE JUAN Age: 56 was called home to be with the Lord on Saturday, 1 March 2008 leaving behind loved ones. (Husband:
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      19 94 13th Anniversary In Ever Loving Memory of SNG AI TEE Departed 2.3.1995 Dearly missed always remembered by loved ones.
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      32 94 In Loving Memory of II NGKUANYONG Departed 2 March 1991 Gone from our lives one so dear, But in our hearts forever near. Always remembered by Dad, Sister and all loved ones.
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      46 94 AL-FATIHAH Allahyarham SULAIMAN BIN HJ MOHD ALI Eldest son of Mr Mrs Hj Mohd Ali Hj Hashim Passed away peacefully on 26 February 2008 Forever in our hearts: H] Mohd Ali Hjh Yatimah Suhana Lut Suhaimi Dahmaya Suryani Ramli Suherda Effande Nieces Nephews Tel: 6282-0702 8128-4024
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      51 94 AL-FATIHAH Allahyarham MOHAMEDIQBAL YACOOB MARICAN Age: 50 passed away peacefully on 29 February 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Izzah Bte Abdullah Sons: Mohd Daniaal Marican Mohd Adam Marican Mohd Idris Marican Beloved mother, brothers, sisters, in-laws, nephews nieces. Amin 2A Jalan Punai Spore *****9 Tel:
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      61 94 On Loving Memory Of KO AI LENG nee Eio called home on 2 March 1990 Our time has come and gone, And the pages of time, we cannot turn back, But still we cherished the love and bond, And the precious memories that we once shared. Always loved and remembered
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      78 94 p fg WONG HOW CHUE Age: 53 passed away peacefully 1 Mar .2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Brothers: Ong Khai Meng Wong Khai Chong Sisters: Wong Ah Nui Nephews: Jason Wong Tak Mun Ong Song Chin Yip Diwei Niece: Ong Vi Leng loved ones. Body is
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      60 94 AL-FATIHAH ALLAHYARHAM AB JALIL BIN AB KADIR@ HASSAN c/o S.A. ABDUL KADER GLASS MERCHANT Age: 63 passed away peacefully on 25 February 2008 Dearly missed by: Wife: Hasnah Binte Rusdi Sons: Azman Abd Jalil Md Azmi Abd Jalil Daughter: Haslina Abd Jalil MAYALLAH S.W.T BLESS HIS SOUL. AMIN. Azman Bin
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    • 108 94 Because love never dies. It has been said that love Ana we too can help share knows not its own depth until the your feelings with those close to hour of separation. But there are y°ur lovetl one trough our 111 ,r In Memoriam section, ways to hold on to
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      490 39  -  Mike Musgrove Washington Post Headset allows gamers to control onscreen objects with their minds THE next video game controller you use might be between your ears. A start-up company called Emotiv Systems has developed a helmet-like headset that, it says, lets users control game characters with their
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      • 151 39 Why it is hot: The X3OO, Lenovo's answer to the Macßook Air (MBA), is not only lighter (1.33 kg v 1.36 kg for MBA) but just as slim (19mm v 19.4 mm for MBA at its thickest point). Unlike the MBA, it has a built-in
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      • 101 39 Why it is hot: The SD9 is the world's smallest and lightest 3CCD video camera. Doing away with a drive mechanism, 1 records on SD/SDHC memory J cards (up to six hours on a 16GB card) and offers full-HD 1920x1080 progressive recording (25 k frames per
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      • 121 39 Why is it hot: This latest Nikon DSLR for consumers doesn't look very different from the previous model, the D4ox. The image sensor is 10.2 megapixel and there is an integrated dust reduction system that minimises dust accumulation on the sensor when the user changes
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    • 451 40  -  Jasmine Teo Two new reality video series will keep Stompers hooked By IS SURVIVOR getting predictable? Can't wait until the next season of America's Next Top Model? Reallife.sg is the answer to your woes. Stomps reality video channel will serve up two new
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    • 97 40 IN ADDITION to our monthly giveaway for the Stomp Editors' Choice video in the DIV Video section, we are offering another incentive for the best submission of wedding videos in our new category, Our Wedding. We are asking couples to share with us
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    • 253 40  -  Daryl Chin By IF YOU have to name one place in Singapore that you hold most dear, what and where would it be? It could be the house and neighbourhood you grew up in, the shopping centre you took your first love
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    • 268 40  -  Daryl Chin By WHEN 64-year-old Mr Ronald Kuan first started taking his video-editing hobby seriously, he never guessed that his DIV Videos entry, Joyful Moments, would win him a prize. The self-taught video buff is the January winner of Stamp's DIV Video
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      293 40 what is your take on the edison Chen scandaL? "If those really are his reasons for quitting, then he's a complete sissy. And, er, this has to be said, judging from the pictures involved in the scandal, he's not 'much' of a man, but even then I don't
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    • 673 41  -  Alex Liam With help from their polys, budding entrepreneurs pick up hands-on skills NEED a holiday break in exotic South Africa? Or you've checked out all the sporting goods shops and are still unable to find a table football set? Look no further than the
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    • 373 41 TEEN CONFIDENTIAL Life can get overwhelming sometimes. But you don't have to suffer in silence. Write to Teen Confidential, and we will get trained counsellors to help you through your problem. E-mail your letters to stgeny@sph. com .sg Q My
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    • 486 41 What is good English? If you are unsure, write to The Sunday Times and we will try to get your queries answered. This is a weekly series in support of the Speak Good English Movement. UNKNOWN Proper parking sign LEAVE your comfortable La-Z-Boys and expensive
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    • 175 41 Cook Your wWLJ wf CUU sasssssss Cooking our food well is just as important as buying, handling and storing food properly. Harmful bacteria that cause food poisoning can be found on raw or undercooked food, especially meat, poultry, seafood, eggs and dairy products. Heat kills bacteria. You can keep food
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    • 733 42  -  Tan Dawn Wei expat eye WHEN Kyriakos Mouratidis left Greece at the age of 22, bound for Hong Kong to do his PhD in computer science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, it was the first time he
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    • INBOX
      • 406 42 I AM responding to the editorial, "When GPs do Botox" (The Sunday Times, Feb 24). It mentioned that in late 2006, "a group of gynaecologists contended that plastic surgeons were in no position to tighten lax vaginas. A less than decorous debate between the
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      • 362 42 I REFER to the article, "GPs quizzed on shoddy cosmetic treatments" (ST, Feb 18). First of all, six complaints last year on aesthetic procedures performed by GPs against a cohort of more than 1,400 registered GPs do not sound like justification for the plastic surgeons to
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      • 282 42 I REFER to the letter, "Frozen meat: Vary the size" (The Sunday Times, Feb 24), from Ms Amy Loh Chee Seen. We agree with Ms Loh that consumers will be more willing to try frozen meat if it is available in consumerfriendly packaging. At present,
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      • 222 42 I REFER to the letter, "Why parking fine at nature park?" (The Sunday Times, Feb 24), by Ms Eng Ting Ting. The carpark at the Bukit Batok Nature Park is operated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It has paid parking daily, including Sundays and
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      • 103 42 I WISH to thank Mr Jason Wong of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports for his reply, "Call in to report begging cases" (The Sunday Times, Feb 17). I have a question: If the bogus foreign beggar has no money to buy a
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    • 274 43 In partnership with A^ National t MITSUBISHI Environment W^. ELECTRIC ency Changes for the Better Mitsubishi Electric^^^ J Air-Conditioner M ENERGY EFFICIENCY RATING B Energy Consumption kWh per hr Cooling Capacity: 9.01 kW MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Split type (inverter) air-conditioner MXY-4A3BVA Tested in accordance with JIS C 9612 I Actual energy
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    • 624 44 DESIGN: SALLY LAM PHOTOS: SANDY HUFFAKER, MORNE DE KLERK and courtesy of RAINA HOSSAII Advertising Feature H^m^ VjfflUfflMS r <M\ I\ Scale the Infocomm Ladder" conlesl 21 Fob 2J Mm OS j j J^ Warn MM 3m For consultant Ms Tammy Huang, 26, Bluetooth provides a way to connect and
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    • 53 44 CONSUMER RIGHTS fc Woman who took on Nokia and won aUU HUI aU^aUW feta AS HL>w HB^ i^J all Vm umC buuu^uAAfl#C V i\uuuuuu» F i^^MtVi If**' There are 150,000 Singaporeans living abroad. Every year, about 1,000 give up their citizenship or withdraw their CPF savings. SANDRA LEONG asks why
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  • lifestyle
    • hot
      • 779 45  -  Mak Mun San Sales manager Tan Geok Hoon, who took on Nokia, had made three other personal claims before thisand won STANDING at 1.52 m, Ms Tan Geok Hoon, dressed in a simple top and jeans, is not someone you would notice in
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      • 168 45 THE Small Claims Tribunal is part of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore and has jurisdiction to hear claims involving the sale of goods or services not exceeding $10,000. All claims must be lodged with the tribunal within one year of the date of the dispute
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      • 689 46  -  Chung Ming See When supply of the luncheon meat from China dried up, a cafe chain here decided to make its own A CHAIN of Hong Kong teahouses has come up with a novel way to deal with the lack of Maling luncheon meat here: It
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      • Article, Illustration
        633 47  -  Stephanie Yap Chung Ming See Do chain bookstores deserve their reputation for poor customer service? LifeStyle checks them out ARTS REPORTER ABOUT a month ago, Mr Amos Toh, 20, tried to find local poet Cyril Wong's Tilting Our Plates To Catch The Light, which was launched in December.
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      • 330 47 On the shelves 7:3opm: The 28,000 sq ft store is by far the most interesting and attractive in terms of decor. The store is relatively well sign-post-ed and easy to navigate. Also, it is easy to find staff members around the store. In fact, this is the only
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      • 299 47 On the shelves 1:15pm: The 42,000 sq ft store can be a little confusing at first especially near the escalators at the back of the store, where the layout encourages you to walk in circles. That said, there are numerous counters throughout the store at
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      • 330 47 On the shelves 3pm: At 3,000 sq ft, this is one of the smallest stores visited. Hence, it is easy to browse, with bestsellers and new arrivals at the entrance and a focus on non-fiction genres such as business and computers. Also has a separate section of Singapore
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      • 338 48 On the shelves Noon: The 32,000 sq ft store is well laid-out, with clear signposting everywhere. It is also easy to locate the numerous staff members in black. However, its claim of arranging titles alphabetically according to author is questionable. I observe a staff member in the
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      • 271 48 On the shelves 4:3opm: The decor of the 20,000 sq ft store is harsh, and the reflection of the fluorescent lights in the marble floor is almost blinding. Shelves are quite comprehensively labelled, though there are some unusual choices in the categorisation. For example, the Harry Potter
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      • 235 48 On the shelves 6pm: The 6,600 sq ft store feels a little crowded, but is otherwise easy to navigate. The focus is on popular fiction and self-help books, though it does have a decent Asian Interest section where several local authors are shelved. Rating: Help in person
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      • Article, Illustration
        680 49  -  Tay Yek Keak A look at the career of French actress Marion Cotillard who just won an Oscar for an unglamorous role Marion Cotillard Age: 32 Born: Paris, France Oscar distinctions: Second French actress to win Best Actress Oscar after Simone Signoret for Room At The Top in
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      • 405 49 THESE actresses also went from gorgeous starlets to Ugly Bettys to win the Oscar. HILARY SWANK Boys Don't Cry(l999) Played: A biologically female youth who dressed up as a boy, but was brutally attacked by her male pals when they discovered her secret. How ugli-fied?
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      • 689 50  -  Foong Woei Wan THEIR epic romance has lasted longer than some showbusiness marriages. Now Hong Kong actress Carina Lav's 19-year-long wait may come to a happy ending after all. Her non-committal beau, actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, has talked marriage publicly for the first time in
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        1617 51  -  Sandra Leong Singapore loses 1,000 capable people to other countries each year. Lifestyle finds out why some leave and what would compel them to return SAVE for a three-month stint as a property consultant here, Mr Robin Teh has worked abroad for most of the 10 years
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      • 718 51 PHOTOS IN DECEMBER 1990, Ms Deborah Chew packed her worldly possessions into two suitcases and uprooted herself to San Francisco. Then aged 25, the law graduate from the National University of Singapore who was then practising corporate and construction law at Arthur Loke Partners
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      • 619 52 This is an environment where there's a balance between work and play. And because I'm self-employed, even if I choose not to work one day, I can make it up somehow, somewhere, on another day' Mr Ernie Goh (above) on why he's
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      • 545 52 ECONOMICS consultant Rama Hossain is one member of Singapore's brain drain who reversed that trend and returned home but not for long. The pull of the United States proved too big a lure. Her overseas sojourn started when she studied at the University of Texas in Austin
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        1068 53  -  Braema Mathi Guys can get in touch with their inner self and share their feelings with other guys in a new group for men SENIOR WRITER THE participants were nine men who did not know each other. The topic: relationships. For over an hour, they took the
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      • 696 54  -  Tan Vi Hui ttj| Tie a resistance band into a loop and place your feet in it, stretching the band till it is comfortably taut. Moving only the ankles, turn both feet outwards laterally. Hold for 5-10 sees. Do 10-20 repetitions. Loop the band Turn your
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      • 400 54  -  Gerard Yeo Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) experts answer your queries in this fortnightly column. Remember, you should not self-medicate. Always consult a practitioner. Send your questions to stlife@sph.com.sg SINSEH SAYS After a triple bypass operation seven years ago, I was prescribed tablets for blood
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      • 686 55  -  Melanie Hong Carlos Rosillo, who flies around the world for work, would rather take a train IN THE short space of two weeks, Carlos Rosillo flew from his hometown in Paris to Japan, then to China and Hong Kong and finally to Malaysia and Singapore. And
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      • 612 55 Reuters TOKYO At Edelstein boarding school, the schoolboys wear lip-gloss, the headmistress has a weakness for manga comic books, and there is only one subject: how to serve female visitors. Welcome to Tokyo's first schoolboy cafe, the latest in a flurry of eateries in Japan
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      • 934 56 Wide open spaces, rare wildlife and amazing rock formations beckon Philip Lee in Adelaide IF YOU want temporary relief from the crush of humanity in Singapore, then Adelaide, the pretty coastal capital of South Australia, is the place to be in. In this
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      • 1022 57  -  Ignatius Low Funny things can happen when personal and working lives meet EARLIER this week, I found myself in the mirrored halls of a swanky new Chinese restaurant in a swanky new hotel that just opened along Tanglin Road. This wasn't surprising considering a few of my bosses
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      • 825 57  -  Linda Collins WHILE in a taxi queue after buying groceries at NTUC recently, I had the chance to observe at first-hand a phenomenon said to be sweeping the country: A guy carrying his girlfriend's handbag. "Look at him, look at that guy," I exclaimed
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        • 724 67  -  Stephanie Yap Loh Keng Fatt BOOK OF THE MONTH Linda Grant's novel shows how clothes reflect the identity and aspirations of their wearers YES, as the title suggests, this book talks a lot about clothes silk gowns and vintage cocktail dresses, leather jackets and red snakeskin shoes, rags
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            269 67  -  By Tahmima Anam Deepika Shetty John Murray/ Paperback/ 276 pages/ $31.46 (with GST)/ Borders IN 1971, a country sat "in two halves, poised on either side of India like a pair of horns". The country was Pakistan and after nine months of bloody conflict, one-half would become
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            247 67  -  By Zoe Heller Boon Chan Penguin/ Paperback/ 302 pages/ $46.95 (without GST)/ Major bookstores •Mrtrtrtt WHAT one believes in is strongly tied to one's sense of identity. In her latest novel, Zoe Heller explores the aftermath when these core beliefs are undermined. After her husband, a radical New
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            252 67  -  By Eileen Stephanie Yap Favorite Hutchinson/ Paperback/ 231 pages/ $30.79 (without GST)/ Major bookstores NOVELS about fictional characters interacting with the physical world are nothing new see Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Still, the premise of this novel that literary heroines occasionally pop by a boarding house in
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            264 67  -  Sherman Alexie By Harvill Seeker/ Paperback/ 181 pages/ $30.79 (without GSTVMajor bookstores HIS name is Zits because he has, like, maybe a million angry pimples taking up prime space on his face. He is 15 and naturally he thinks it's cool to be one angry young man. Indeed, he
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            • 256 67  -  Ong Sor Fern R.N. Morris By Faber and Faber/ Paperback/ 317 pages/ $35.95 (with GSTVMajor bookstores IT WAS with trepidation that I started on R.N. Morris' book. After all, his hero is borrowed from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment, which I endured with gritted teeth as a
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              273 67  -  By Tom Rob Smith Ong Sor Fern Simon Schuster/ Paperback/ 473 pages/ $30.98 (with GSTVMajor bookstores ~A it A"A"fr RUSSIA, it seems, is the new hot spot for murder mysteries. Child 44, Tom Rob Smith's impressive page-turning debut, is set there. Unlike the nostalgiatinged St Petersburg of A
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        • 602 68  -  Stephanie Yap FIRSTWORDS In the third of a monthly column featuring groundbreaking works of local literature, we look at Gods Can Die, which explores the ways individuals engage with the world THIS formative work of Singapore literature can easily be linked to the formative years of the nation
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        • 215 68 POET Edwin Thumboo, 74, is often dubbed Singapore's unofficial poet laureate. The emeritus professor of the National University of Singapore's (NUS) English language and literature department has received numerous national awards, from the Cultural Medallion in 1980 to the Meritorious Service Medal in 2006. He has published four
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          360 68  -  James Lee Burke THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN: A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL By Simon Schuster/Hardcover/ 384 pages/$44.95 (with GST)/ Major bookstores SET against the backdrop of southern Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, James Lee Burke's latest novel conrincingly paints a haunting portrait of a city racked by destruction
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          378 68  -  Nora Roberts writing STRANGERS IN DEATH By asJ.D. Robb Piatkus/Paperback/356 pages/ $27.77 (with GST)/ Books Kinokuniya A A THE place is New York; the year, 2060. People communicate through "links" and use domestic droids as housekeepers, but little else has changed including crimes, killers, and Nora Roberts' plot formulas,
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      • 803 70  -  Wong Ah Yoke Julian Tarn's no-frills Wo Peng Eatery serves hotel-standard Cantonese food EATS LASI week, I wrote about French chei Nicolas Joanny, who returned to Singapore after four years to open his eponymous restaurant in January. Today's review is also on a restaurant opened
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        412 71 LIFESTYLE obtained samples of the fish from Namibia, and asked Cantonese restaurant Peach Garden to come up with dishes using them. Its Hong Kong-born executive chef, Chan Weng Kwong, prepared the dishes and the tasters were Madam Veronica Tan (left) and Madam Angela Ho (right), co-owners of the
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      • 764 71  -  Huang Lijie Singapore is importing fish from Namibia, and they turn out tasty as a LifeStyle taste test revealed THE next time you find yourself looking for salted fish to go with Teochew porridge, try cured snoek from Namibia. It is one of four new
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        412 72  -  Chris Tan The easiest way to make beancurd is perhaps to get a Japanese instant tofu kit ASK THE FOODIE QI WOULD like to find out how to make soya bean curd. I have made soya bean milk using a blender, but have yet to figure out how
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      • 353 72 QI want to eat more lentils and beans. The problem is, they tend to produce a lot of wind. What are some of the ways to counter this gassy problem? Also, I really love Turkish lentil soup (below) but I'm unable to reproduce this
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      • 465 72  -  Jenny Tan WINECLUB Cote de Vincent Sparkling $38.90 (75c1), $15.90 QOcI) IT'S now possible to drink a bottle of wine, drive and pass a breathalyser test. That is, if the bottle you drink is a "wine without alcohol". The oxymoronic-sounding drink arrived in Singapore a few
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      • 554 72  -  Jeremy Oliver CHEERS IN THIS fortnightly column, wine commentator Jeremy Oliver sheds light on the world of wine. He is the author of the best-selling Australian Wine Annual and runs his website www.onwine.com.au There are many winemaking factors that can mask terroir, the special characteristics
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