The Straits Times, 3 June 2008

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    25 1 THE STRAITS TIMES 106 PAGES IN FIVE PARTS MICA (P) 115/12/2007 TUESDAY, JUNE 3 2008 •V A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION ESTABLISHED 1845 80 CENTS
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  • Article
    Lock icon New drive targets over-40s for early health checks
    607 1  -  Lee Hui Chieh Heartland GPs will provide subsidised or free screening for diabetes, hypertension By THE fight against chronic illnesses like diabetes and hypertension is being taken to the heartland this month in what may be Singapore's biggest health screening effort ever.
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  • INSIDE
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      Lock icon Illegal rent-a-car schemes
      51 1 CASH-STRAPPED car owners are taking to leasing their vehicles to rental companies which promise to ease their loan repayment burdens. It sounds good, except for one thing: such deals are illegal and can lead to a fine, a jail term or a driving ban. SEE HOME: PAGE
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      Lock icon SM Goh, MM Lee in Moscow
      55 1 SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew arrive in Moscow today on a trip that underlines the deep ties between the two countries. They will meet Russian leaders, top businessmen and young politicians in the Russian capital during the four-day
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      Lock icon Petrol ban: It's on, says minister
      83 1 IS MALAYSIA'S ban on Singapore cars filling up within 50km of the Johor border on, off or yet to be decided? It's on, declared Domestic Trade Minister Shahrir Samad yesterday amid confusion after Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak was quoted as saying that it
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    Lock icon JAILED
    148 1 CONTEMPT OF COURT HEARING SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan (left) was all smiles outside the High Court yesterday after he was sentenced to 12 days in jail for scandalising the court and challenging its dignity and authority during a hearing last week. His sister Chee Siok Chin
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    Lock icon CHARGED
    103 1 IN A related case, lawyer and former Workers' Party election candidate Gopalan Nair was charged with insulting Justice Belinda Ang in an e-mail. Now an American citizen, he has been blogging on Singapore politics and his recent postings were about the Chees' questioning of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Women cabbies: Only a few, but fearless
      1002 1  -  Christopher Tan By Senior Correspondent WOMEN have made their presence felt in practically every profession, but in the world of taxi-driving, they remain relatively rare. According to the Land Transport Authority, fewer than 2,400 women hold taxi vocational licences today. Although this is
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      282 2 selection die Volailles Savour our chef's specialties, Poulet de Bresse Braise and Poulet de Bresse Roti Au Jus, made with Poulet de Bresse, a breed of chicken originating from the Rhone-Alps region of France. Prized for their rich taste and texture, these birds have exquisitely fine and tender meat, which
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      354 2 SECTION ONE HOME Prime 2-4 Crime-busters' tales Asia 6-14 Two officers share their stories on World 15-19 how they nabbed evasive Review ...20-22 perpetrators as Police PY| 03 Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui award commendations to worthy SECTION TWO individuals today. Home H1-H5 PAGE H3 Forum H6 Sports H7-H11 Help to
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Card or IU: Which is faulty?
      667 3  -  Tan Weizhen By IS IT the Cash Card or the In-ve-hicle Unit (IU)? It's still a mystery as to what's behind the ERP glitches that plague about 300 drivers a month. Yesterday Cash Card issuer Nets said faulty lUs could be the reason some
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      Lock icon Man held for murder as baby dies in hospital
      515 3  -  Esther Tan Sujin Thomas By A BABY who arrived in hospital on Sunday night gasping and with bruises on her face died two hours later. A man was arrested at KK Women's and Children's Hospital for her murder. The man, in
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    • BLASTS IN PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH
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        Lock icon Giant car bomb rocks Danish Embassy
        393 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS SUSPECTED SUICIDE ATTACK Eight killed and dozens wounded in blast that echoes through Islamabad Islamabad A HUGE car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital yesterday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens more, officials and
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        Lock icon Two explosions set Dhaka hotel ablaze
        391 4 REUTERS SUSPECTED GAS LEAK Dhaka BLASTS at a multi-storey hotel in the Bangladeshi capital killed a man and injured more than 30 people overnight, the police and fire authorities said yesterday. Reports said the hotel guests included some from Singapore, but details were not
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      288 4 AIRLINES HITTHE PANIC BUTTON "The situation is desperate and potentially more destructive than our recent battles with all the Horsemen of the Apocalypse combined." We look at the state of the global airline industry. [flat landlord] to tenant: Lend me money to pay loan sharks He agrees. Then... the I
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Hardline Muslims wage war on sect
      810 6  -  Salim Osman CLASHES IN INDONESIA The hardliners, in turn, face crackdown by President Yudhoyono By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta THE leader of an Islamic hardline group in Indonesia yesterday declared war on a minority sect, setting the stage for a showdown with President Susilo
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    • CHINA
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        Lock icon 200,000 evacuated due to flood risk
        366 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS, BLOOMBERG Qinglian (Sichuan) VILLAGES in the path of an earthquake-created lake that threatens to burst stood empty yesterday after thousands of people were told to evacuate. But as others rushed for higher ground, the Liv family stayed at home, watching news of
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        Lock icon Schools, hospitals to be built with donations
        526 8  -  VINCE CHONG Funds from overseas Chinese to go towards 100 schools and 100 hospitals in Sichuan By China Correspondent In Beijing DONATIONS by overseas Chinese will be used to build 100 schools and 100 hospitals in earth-quake-hit areas in Sichuan, as the south-western
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        Lock icon Beijing sorry for stereotyping disabled athletes
        247 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS, XINHUA Beijing BEIJING Olympic organisers have apologised for the language used to describe disabled athletes in a manual compiled for volunteers. On the "Optically Disabled", a section in the 200-page guide said: "They have deep and implicit feelings and seldom show strong
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    • EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon China to cut back on missiles aimed at Taiwan, says KMT
        627 9 REUTERS Party official's claim boosts hopes of cross-strait reconciliation Taipei CHINESE leaders have told Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) that they will reduce the number of missiles aimed at Taiwan, a KMT official said yesterday, further fuelling hopes of a
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        Lock icon RED-FACED CHARMS
        37 9 Colourful "fragrant bags", to ward off evil spirits and offer protection from diseases, are a traditional accessory in some parts of China, including Anhui, during the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on Sunday. PHOTO: XINHUA
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        Lock icon Beijing and Shanghai run short of fuel as oil firms cut output
        253 9 REUTERS Beijing FUEL shortages hit the heart of China's capital Beijing and its financial hub Shanghai as energy majors cut output to limit losses from low state-set pump prices. Yesterday morning, drivers in search of petrol spent up
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        Lock icon Paralysed man takes a walk in virtual world
        277 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE TOKYO A PARALYSED man has been able to manipulate a virtual Internet character using only his brainwaves, Japanese researchers said yesterday, calling it a world first. The 41-year-old patient used his imagination to make his character take a walk and
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    • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
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        Lock icon Crack detectives take over botched probe
        472 10  -  Ravi Velloor MURDERS OF DENTIST'S DAUGHTER AND SERVANT IN INDIA Senior cop who alleged illicit affair gets transferred out By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi CRACK federal detectives have registered a case against "unknown persons" in the murders of a dentist's daughter and
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        Lock icon PUTTING A DAMPER ON CASTE PROTEST
        105 10 Police using water cannon to disperse protesting members of the disadvantaged Gujjar caste during a demonstration in New Delhi on Sunday. In a sign of a thaw in the stand-off with the Gujjars, the government in the western state of Rajasthan has agreed to
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        Lock icon Top Indian seminary issues edict against terrorism
        231 10 REUTERS New Delhi AN ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE Muslim seminary in India, which is said to have inspired the Taleban, issued a fatwa against terrorism during a meeting attended by thousands of clerics and students. The Darool-Uloom Deoband, a 150-year-old institute controlling thousands of smaller Islamic
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        Lock icon Nepal's former king agrees to go: Minister
        128 10 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Kathmandu NEPAL'S former king has agreed to leave his palace before a June 12 deadline and live as a commoner after a decision by a constituent assembly to abolish the monarchy. "He said he is ready to live life as a
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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        Lock icon Investors dump shares as street protests continue
        474 11 ASSOCIATED PRESS POLITICAL UNREST IN BANGKOK No violence or coup, Thai Finance Minister reassures foreign investors Bangkok ANTI-GOVERNMENT street protests and rumours of a military coup are hurting Thailand's economy and investors' confidence, the Finance Minister said yesterday as the stock market fell
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        Lock icon Canadian paedophile suspect's trial begins
        266 11 REUTERS Bangkok A THAI court began the formal trial of Canadian paedophile suspect Christopher Neil yesterday, seven months after he was arrested in a global manhunt triggered by "swirly face" images of abuse found on the Internet. Neil, with his wrists and ankles shackled as
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        Lock icon Manila scraps school uniforms to help the poor
        196 11 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Kalibo (Central Philippines) PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday that schoolchildren will no longer need to wear uniforms, in a bid to ensure they attend class despite families facing soaring food and energy costs. "We want to make it as
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
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        Lock icon Umno's top leaders to thrash out recovery plan
        709 13  -  Carolyn Hong By n /r i Malaysia Bureau Chief In Kuala Lumpur UMNO'S top leaders will huddle behind closed doors this week to hammer out a "recovery plan" for the party, which continues to be near-para-lysed by politics three months after the
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        Lock icon 50km fill-up rule in JB to take effect next week
        609 13  -  Hazlin Hassan »PETROL SALES BAN Malaysians who drive Singapore-registered cars will not be exempted from rule By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur IT IS confirmed: Malaysia will ban sales of petrol to Singapore-regis-tered cars in parts of southern Johor starting
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        Lock icon Teens' tales of casual sex come as a shocker
        382 13 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK Kuala Lumpur FOR only RMS (552.10), a teenager gets to experience sex with his schoolmates. This was the shocking revelation recorded by counsellors who organised a youth camp for problematic secondary school students in Selangor recently. In
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        Lock icon Call to help victims deal with psychological trauma
        337 13  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim MYANMAR CYCLONE AFTERMATH By THE psychological damage inflicted by Cyclone Nargis on Myanmar is "much more terrible" than its physical damage, said an academic who spent 10 days on relief work in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta. Days after he
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      22 6 Thailand hurting Public protests against the government and rumours of a coup are hurting investor confidence, says Thai Finance Minister. PAGE 11
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon hILLARY'S LAST-GASP PITCH
      791 14  -  Bhagyashree Hard sell directec at superdelegates who have yet to declare support By Garekar US Correspondent In Washington OF ALL the places that Mr Barack Obama could be in on the night the Democratic primary race for the presidency ends, he mischievously opted for St Paul, Minnesota.
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      Lock icon Inferno sets off reel disaster for Universal Studios
      599 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS 12-hour-long fire destroys film archive and famous stage sets Universal City (California) AT LEAST 500 firefighters have battled and contained a gigantic blaze at Hollywood's famed Universal Studios that ravaged the legendary film studio's most famous stage
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      Lock icon Britain to make smoking less tempting to children
      363 15 ASSOCIATED PRESS London BRITAIN'S Department of Health has released proposals that would ban cigarette companies from putting any kind of logo or branding on their cigarette packets. Manufacturers would have to sell their cigarettes in plain black-and-white boxes with nothing but health
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      Lock icon China has 15 million underage smokers
      374 15 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Beijing CHINA said yesterday that there are 15 million underage smokers in the country more than three times the population of Singapore and the number is rising. Around 40 million of the country's 130 million teenagers aged between 13 and 18 had
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      Lock icon Australia's reasons for Iraq war all wrong: Rudd
      491 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS He blasts Howard's decision as he fulfils pledge to bring troops home Sydney ALL the arguments Australia used to justify sending troops to fight in Iraq proved to be wrong, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told parliament yesterday, as
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon BBC MAN IN TROUBLE IN THAILAND
        167 16 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BANGKOK: A Thai police officer has accused the BBC's South-east Asia correspondent of insulting Thailand's revered monarchy, police said yesterday, but the broadcaster said the claims were "completely unfounded". The senior police officer on Friday filed a list of complaints to the
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        Lock icon CLIMATE CHANGE: URGENT APPEAL
        141 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS BONN: Poor countries appealed to a 162-na-tion climate conference yesterday to move faster on an agreement to rein in global warming, saying they already are suffering from floods and cyclones brought on by rising temperatures. The appeal came at the opening of a two-week
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        Lock icon SIX DIE AFTER INJECTIONS IN CHINA
        124 16 ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING: Six people have died after being injected with a human antibody in eastern China, a hospital spokesman said yesterday, in the latest case of deaths caused by suspect medicine. The people died after being injected with immune globulin, and the company
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      Lock icon Newspaper sales, ad revenues 'increasing worldwide'
      573 17 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS Figures are even better when free dailies are added, survey shows gothenberg (Sweden) NEWSPAPER sales and advertising revenues climbed worldwide last year, flying in the face of predictions of the industry's decline, a report said yesterday. The World Association of
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      Lock icon Edward Kennedy undergoes surgery for brain tumour
      307 17 ASSOCIATED PRESS Durham (North Carolina) US POLITICAL icon Edward Kennedy was undergoing a risky six-hour operation last night to remove a brain tumour. The 76-year-old long-time Senator and Democratic patriarch the last surviving brother of the late president John F. Kennedy was diagnosed
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      Lock icon SM Goh and MM Lee on joint trip to Moscow
      513 17  -  Bertha Henson By Associate Editor In Moscow ONE is a regular visitor to Russia while the other has not been there for some time. For Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, today's trip to Moscow will be his fourth since 2005
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      Lock icon US credit crunch's latest victims: College students
      466 18 NEW YORK TIMES Student loans harder to come by as banks favour elite universities New York SOME of the biggest banks in the United States have closed their doors to students at community colleges, for-profit universities and other less competitive institutions while continuing
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Kidnap victim makes debut as talk-show host
        253 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ESCAPED kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch made her debut as a talk-show presenter on Austrian television on Sunday, interviewing Formula One legend Niki Lauda. Ms Kampusch put on a smiling face but appeared shy as she asked Lauda about his career, family
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        Lock icon Cancer patient wins bet against his own death
        269 18 MR JON Matthews was told by his doctors he was terminally ill and should not make plans for Christmas. Yesterday, the 58-year-old former salesman collected a neat £5,000 (S$13,000) from a betting parlour near his home at Milton Keynes in West London,
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      443 19 THE five Singaporeans who died in a dragon boat accident in Cambodia last year were in a way pioneers in a recreational sport that for its long history is thin in organisational coherence. This is the sad conclusion to draw from the inquiry panel's report out last
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      1201 19 REGIONAL SECURITY Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean spoke at the Shangri-La Dialogue on Sunday. Here is an edited excerpt of his address: DEFENCE and security relationships in the Asia-Pacific have been evolving to meet the geopolitical context and the region's security needs. Vestiges of old
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      625 19  -  Zhikai Gao »COMPARING HEATHROW'S T5 AND BEIJING'S T3 By EVER since it opened recently, Terminal 5 of London's Heathrow Airport has been plagued by problems. Terminal 3 in Beijing, which opened just one day before Terminal 5, has been operating almost without a glitch. The
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      1209 21  -  Radha Basu GETTING AROUND IN SINGAPORE By Senior Correspondent THE papers were full of reports a few weeks ago on Singapore's impending transformation into a green, wellconnected "leisure island", with cycling and jogging tracks. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said we may be
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      28 19 Access problems Urgently needed: Easier access in Singapore for disabled people, who still face numerous challenges in getting about. PAGE 22 PUNCHLINES HEALTHY EARTH S i\ THE A\"
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      1111 22 h V I s Singapore today I Partly cloudy, late morning and early m m 0 M 1|P^ afternoon showers with thunder mainly over 9|jjPH 9BS pp"*%,^central, northern and western Singapore. THE STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY, JUNE 3 2008 ASIA WORLD WEATHER USEFUL NUMBERS AV P^ 1 ls>&tim r "^v_ I
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      576 24  -  Christopher Tan They pay owners' loan instalments and use cars as rentals but this is illegal By Senior Correspondent COMPANIES which offer financially strapped car owners a way out by taking over their vehicles to be used as rentals are sprouting. It makes
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      328 24 'Leased' car missing now owner faces bankruptcy CHRISTOPHER TAN CASH-STRAPPED businessman Lav Cheun Kee "leased" his 2004 Honda Odyssey sev-en-seater to a rental firm when his food business failed last year. But he now faces a bigger problem: involuntary bankruptcy and possible prosecution by the Land Transport Authority. Leasing the
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      124 24 Private car owners are allowed to rent their cars out only from 7pm on Friday to 7am the following Monday and from 7pm on the eve of a public holiday to 7am on the first working day following the public holiday. For illegally renting out cars,
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      655 25  -  Kor Kian Beng US citizen accused of sending e-mail containing insults to A-G and others By A FORMER Workers' Party (WP) member who is now an American citizen has been charged in court with insulting a public servant. Gopalan Pallichadath Nair, 58, was charged
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      168 25 Twice found guilty of contempt misconduct Gopalan Pallichadath Nair Born May 14, 1950 Became an American citizen in 2005. He now practises law in California, where he is believed to have moved to after the 1991 polls. Maintains an online political blog titled Singapore Dissident. Stood on a Workers' Party
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      823 25  -  Jeremy Au Yong Zakir Hussain Stiffest sentence ever for such an offence: SDP chief jailed 12 days; sister gets 10 By SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan, 46, was yesterday sentenced to 12 days' jail for contempt of court, while
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      360 25  -  Zakir Hussain By IF LEFT unpunished, misbehaviour in court will diminish the dignity and authority of the court, Justice Belinda Ang said yesterday. "That would not be in the public interest," she said, before sentencing Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) executive committee member
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        203 26  -  TEH JOO LIN ONE of the toughest jobs for a white-collar crime-buster is cutting through paper trails to figure out who broke the law. Armed with a love for numbers, Inspector Andy Foo did just that in cracking a case involving the theft
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        249 26  -  CHONGCHEEKIN A DEAD man tells no tales but his mobile phone certainly can. The phone of a murder victim left a trail which eventually led a detective to the killer. The officer, Assistant Superintendent Steven Wee, 35, will be given two awards by the
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      484 26  -  Elena Chong By Court Correspondent AFTER Teo Sew Eng's married lover died, she became embroiled in a dispute with his relatives over the division of his inheritance money. Yesterday, the 53-year-old was accused in court of having helped her then 15-year-old son
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      436 27  -  Eisen Teo First diabetes drive to feature graphic ads on amputated leg By WHEN 56-year-old Rahmat Mohd Yunos was diagnosed with diabetes 21 years ago, he knew the dangers of the disease. His mother had already lost her right leg to the same condition.
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      304 27  -  Shobana Kesava By A FACTORY here which turns rotting food into energy has won international acclaim for its eco-friendly work. lUT Global, which opened its Tuas plant six months ago, uses bacteria to convert food waste from places such as the Regent Hotel,
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      519 28  -  Keith Lin 2012 vision aims to give low-wage earners a boost up social ladder By THE Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) has mapped out a four-year vision to help low-income Chinese Singaporeans break out of the poverty cycle. The self-help group, whose
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      545 28  -  Tessa Wong By ENVIRONMENTALISTS are pushing into a new frontier neighbourhood shops in their uphill battle to persuade Singaporeans to use fewer plastic bags. By the end of this year, the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) will be rolling out
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        95 28 A PARLIAMENTARY delegation from the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain is in Singapore until Thursday. Five members of the country's Shura Council, including its chairman Ali Saleh Al-Saleh, are here at the invitation of Singapore's Speaker of Parliament Abdullah Tarmugi. Besides calling on Mr Abdullah, the Bahrain
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        83 28 THERE has been a change of guard at the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) Mr Ong Hian Sun took over the director's post from Mr Tan Siong on Sunday. Mr Tan, 53, who has been with the CAD since 1999, will be posted to the Subordinate Courts.
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        76 28 THE United Overseas Bank (UOB) yesterday handed over more than $2 million to the Chinese Embassy here to help with the rebuilding efforts in the wake of the earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan. The money will go towards the building of a school
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        68 28 The Dyslexia Association of Singapore has received a donation of almost $24,000, courtesy of President S R Nathan's signature. The money formed part of the proceeds of the sale of 128 Montblanc Meisterstuck fountain pens engraved with Mr Nathan's signature. Only 149 such pens are available.
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      226 28 Have a break break some bones ALL enrichment classes and no play during the June holidays make it a dull break, or really, not much of a break at all. This week, Digital Life shows you how to sneak in some fun. First, break up the monotony of work by
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      302 29  -  David Goh I RECENTLY received an income tax audit stating all possible reasons why I cannot claim parent relief for my father, aged 79. I appeal to the Government to seriously consider changing the conditions for tax relief for the claimant, his parents
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      341 29  -  Ace Kindred Cheong BO AT TRAGEDY AFTER reading Saturday's articles, "Dragon boat tragedy inquiry", I do not blame any party for what happened but would like to make some recommendations to local sports bodies and host nations. Safety of athletes should take top
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      270 29  -  Angelina Phillips (Ms) WHEN are two Bs and a C not good enough for entry to the National University of Singapore (NUS) arts faculty? When, it appears, one of your Bs is in that "new" subject, Knowledge and Inquiry (XI). While people are keen to
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      223 29  -  Timothy Tan LAST Friday, about 100 countries formally endorsed the convention on cluster munitions in Dublin, Ireland. The convention aims to ban the use and production of cluster bombs, a type of weapon in which a large number of smaller bomblets are scattered
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      405 29  -  Geoffrey Somers AS A long-time admirer of Singapore, may I issue a well-meant warning that well, bluntly, I think you've been carried away with your own success, and may be riding for a fall. On a recent visit, I was disappointed to
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      356 29  -  Steven Tan I APPRECIATE the views of Mr Lim Boon Kwee on Saturday, "Don't choose to ignore Singapore's positives". As a Singaporean born before independence, I have seen how Singapore transformed itself from a nation of attap houses into modern Housing Board residential estates. Our
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      241 29  -  Suhana Kharudin (Ms) I REFER to Mr Sim Yong Teng's letter last Thursday, "Eight e-mails and more later, he's given up". On receipt of his e-mail, our feedback system provided an auto-acknowledgement in reply to Mr Sim. The system then routed his e-mail
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      27 29 For more readers' views, log on to straitstimes. com. Access to letters online is free. CHINATOWN'S BLIGHT: Cheap plastic UNFRIENDLY U-TURN: Pedra Branca BE BMX-FRIENDLY: Public transport
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      335 30 ASSOCIATED PRESS »SOCCER Mourinho appointed Inter Milan coach Rome AS HIGHLY expected, Jose Mourinho was yesterday named the new coach of Italian champions Inter Milan. The Portuguese former Chelsea manager, 45, signed a three-year contract. Inter did not reveal the value of Mourinho's contract, but the Italian press
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      247 30 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Eriksson leaves Man City Manchester BLACKBURN boss Mark Hughes is to hold talks about becoming Manchester City's next manager, after Sven-Goran Eriksson's year-long reign at the club ended yesterday. Within hours of City confirming Eriksson's departure, Blackburn announced they had "reluctantly" allowed their manager to talk
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        1061 30  -  Terrence Voon Uzbekistan deliver a masterful display, but Singapore show effort and courage By With all the pre-match hype focusing on star striker Maksim Shatskikh, Karpenko and company were allowed to run riot. The Dynamo Kiev hitman cleverly pulled defenders in all
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        105 30  -  VALERIE CHIA LAST night was unforgettable for Chanderni Devi. Her boyfriend, Navin Nambiar, proposed with a 0.7 carat solitaire during the interval of the Singapore-Uz-bekistan clash. Eleven huge banners, costing more than $1,000, formed the message "Chan Marry Me" and were unfurled by Nambiar's friends and
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        365 30  -  Marc Lim ►►COMMENTARY By Sports Correspondent "WE couldn't cope. We couldn't cope." Singapore coach Raddy Avramovic didn't just stop at two. In yesterday's 15-minute post-match conference, he said it seven times. Seven, also the number of goals his Lions conceded yesterday. "We couldn't cope." It
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      157 31 GROUP B in a nutshell Although Germany are rated 9-2 favourites for the tournament, it must be remembered that the last time they won a match at the European Championship was the 1996 final. The Germans are an attractive, attacking unit, but they could still be stunned by dark horses
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      512 31 GERMANY qualified after a mere 237 days, apparently a record. Playing on their own doorstep with countries that speak the same language, they also got a relatively kind draw in Group B and are now the Euro 2008 favourites. But favourites with sec-ond-stringers lacking
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      282 31 POLAND have finally qualified for the European Championship, on their 13 th try. Which explains the bad luck of having to face the three-time European champions Germany in their opening match. Poland have never beaten Germany in 15 games. But, for a side that managed
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      241 31 THERE was a time when Austria boasted one of the best teams in the world. That was in the *****, when their Wunderteam enjoyed a 14-game unbeaten run, thrashing Germany 6-0 and 5-0 and beating Italy (2-1). Now, the Austrians are simply hoping to avoid
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      243 31 THE conquerors of England are the dangerous dark horses of Euro 2008. The days of stylish midfielders Robert Prosinecki, Zvonimir Boban and Aljosa Asanovic may be gone but, in their place, coach and rock star Slaven Bilic has put together his own trinity. Niko Kransjcar, the
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      506 31 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE »SOCCER Port of Spain THE result looked good on paper, but England coach Fabio Capello admitted all is not right. Capello saw his team cruise to a 3-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday. Earlier in the week, England
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      819 32  -  Rohit Brijnath GAME, SET AND MATCH By BY THE time you have finished reading aloud this sentence at normal speed, the 21-year-old Usain Bolt, who hails from Jamaica, would have broken the world 100 metres record. This man, with a time
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      68 32 Before Muhammad AN became world famous, he was Cassius Marcellus Clay. Clay was 18 when he competed and won at the 1960 Rome Olympics in the light-heavyweight division. He turned professional in 1964 and stopped Sonny Liston for the World heavyweight title. Over the next four
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      959 32 ASSOCIATED PRESS, AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE ATHLETICS Jamaican's 100 m world record is surprise as he is a 200 m specialist and had run only four other races New York FIRST things first: The newly anointed "World's Fastest Man" does not consider the 100 metres his favourite
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      501 32 ASSOCIATED PRESS Emmeloord (Netherlands) AFTER he dipped across the line and his Cheetah runner blades finally came to a standstill, Oscar Pistorius realised it was almost too good to be true. He was running competitively again. And, despite being a double amputee, he
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      169 32 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LASHAWN Merritt has vowed to repeat Sunday's Golden League win over Olympic and World 400 metres champion Jeremy Warmer at Beijing's Olympic Games in August. Warmer, who won the 400 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2007 world championships in
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      230 33 Three-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal is hoping for a fourth win by sticking to what he does best on the dirt. But what is it that makes the clay court so different from other courts? The loose sand grains also make the ball bounce at
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      378 33 REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS »TENNIS Top-ranked Russian blows big lead against compatriot to exit from French Open Paris ONE point from the quarter-finals, Maria Sharapova again came up short at the French Open. Seeking the only Grand Slam title she has yet to win, the top-ranked
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      68 33 MEN 4th rd: Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) bt Robby Ginepri (USA) 7-6(7-4) 6-3 6-1, Roger Federer (Sui) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 6-4 7-5 7-5, Rafael Nadal (Esp) bt Fernando Verdasco (Esp) 6-1 6-0 6-2, Nicolas Almagro (Esp) bt Jeremy Chardy (Fra) 7-6(7-0) 7-6(9-7) 7-5. WOMEN 4th rd: Elena Dementieva
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      769 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS BASKETBALL Boston PAUL Pierce grew up in Los Angeles watching the Lakers play the Celtics for NBA titles. Now, he is captain of the Boston team who are back in the finals for the first time since losing to the Lakers
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        69 33 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE DUBLIN (Ohio): Kenny Perry shot a three-under 69 for a two-stroke victory at the Memorial golf tournament on Sunday. The American carded a total of 280 to join Tiger Woods as the only player to win the event three times. Jerry Kelly
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        80 33 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LUANDA (Angola): Carlos Alhinho, the former coach of the Angolan national football team, died after falling down an empty elevator shaft in a hotel in Benguela. The hotel manager said the 59-year-old died on Saturday afternoon, after he stepped through the open lift
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        76 33 BLOOMBERG MILAN: Alberto Contador completed victory in the Giro d'ltalia cycling race on Sunday, adding the sport's secondbiggest prize to his Tour de France title last year. The Spaniard overcame less than a week's preparation and a fractured elbow to finish the 3,432 km race lmin
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        68 33 ASSOCIATED PRESS MUNICH: South Korean golfer Amy Yang, 18, shot a five-under 67 on Sunday to win the Women's German Open by four strokes for her first victory as a professional. Yang, who had a course-record 63 on Saturday, finished with a 267 total.
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      865 34 CRICKET Australian leads the cheapest franchise to the inaugural IPL title MUMBAI HE SPENT almost his entire career becoming the master of cricket's most traditional format five-day Test matches. On Sunday, Shane Warne showed he is also adept at Twenty2o cricket the three-hour variety
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      215 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS St John's (Antigua) AUSTRALIA and the West Indies have been fined for slow-over rates during the first Test in Kingston, Jamaica, which the tourists won by 95 runs, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Monday. Captains Ricky Ponting and Ramnaresh Sarwan were fined
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      372 34 ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS »GOLF Mount Pleasant (South Carolina) LEE Scon Hwa did not expect to receive the Ginn Tribute trophy from tournament host Annika Sorenstam on Sunday. Few others did, either. She took advantage of a stunning collapse from Sophie Gustafson, and watched
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      954 34 ATHLETICS Berlin Golden League-Men's 100 m: 1 Nesta Carter (Jam) 10.08 sec 2 Kirn Collins (Skn) 10.12 3 Ivory Williams (USA) 10.13.400 m: 1 LaShawn Merritt (USA) 44.03 2 Jeremy Warmer (USA) 44.07 3 Chris Brown (Bah) 44.68. 800 m: 1 Abraham Chepkirwok (Uga) lmin 44.535 ec 2 Mbulaeni
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      29 30 Accidental milestone The 100 m race was not part of record holder Usain Bolt's normal routine, until he pleaded with his coach to let him try it. PAGE H9
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      62 33 TV times ICE HOCKEY: NHL Stanley Cup final, Game 5: Pittsburgh Penguins v Detroit Red Wings (Live, Ch22 Ch3o3, Bam). SOCCER: International friendly: France v Colombia (Live, Ch27, tomorrow, 2.55 am). TENNIS: French Open: Day 10 (Live, Ch22, 9pm). Events SOCCER: Singapore League Cup q-finals, first leg: Gombak United v
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  • OBITUARIES
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      311 35 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 'Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth; bears all
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      202 35 "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 ANG CHONG KUAN Age: 87 Was called home to be with the Lord on 31 May 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: Goh Geek Kang (deceased) Sons:
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      60 35 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Our Managing Director Mr Alvin Chua on the demise of his beloved grandfather TAY CHENG SENG on 31 May 2008 From The Management Staff of MARINE TECH (MT) ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD Wake is held at No 33 Shrewsbury Road. Cortege will leave on
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      57 35 Athma Shanti Pooja PALANIVELU LACHIMI passed away peacefully on 20 May 2008. Karumathi prayers tonight at Blk 510 Ang Mo Kio Aye 8 #02-2556 Spore *****0. Athma Shanti Pooja will be held on 4 June 2008 (Wed) at 7.30pm at Sri Sivan Temple, 24 Geylang East Aye 2. Pis treat
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      43 35 In loving Memory k 20th Anniversary Charles Aloysius Rodrigues "Charlie Boy" Departed: 3rd June 1988 Daddy, it's been 20 years since you departed. The memory of you still remains fresh in our hearts minds. You '11 always be dearly missed Uv/ed 2 Ming,Su-Yin&li
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      224 35 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not m perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 ;3 HO SEE NG JOSEPH Age: 77 Was called home to be with the Lord on 1 June 2008. Dearly missed
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      131 35 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 NG SOH TIN Age: 74 Was called home to be with the Lord on 1 June 2008, leaving behind loved ones. Husband: KohßoonQuee Children: Spouses: Koh Ai Lan, Wendy Ho Leng Hoi
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      162 36 NG THING SAN MU Age: 84 passed away peacefully on 2 June 2008 Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. wife: Tan Koo g£X Sisters: Brother: MMt£ (Eft) (*S) (Eft) (*B) 31 IS (Eft) (*S) H^* (#*B) Sons: Daughters-in-law: NgSweeHwa Jf3^ LowSeokßee JWiKH NgSweeHeng JfSoX TanKengLui WMM NgSweeLeong M^B
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      61 36 RADHA SOAMI TULSIDAS KALYANDAS KISHNANI Age: 86 Left for Heavenly Abode on 31 May 2008 Leaving Behind Beloved Wife: RUKI Son: Nirmal Daughters: Sons-in-law: Reshma Kishin Shamdasani Harsha Dayal Gulabani Neelam Murli Asnani Grandchildren: Manoj, Ravina, Ritesh, Juan, Manish, Madhu, Amit Wadhwa. BHOG PRAYERS will be held on 4 June
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      96 36 GOVINDARAJOO NAIDU (CHANGI BOTAK RAJOO) (1927 2008) Age: 81 passed away peacefully on Monday, 2nd of June 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Wife: SarojaVeerasamy Sons: Daughters-in-law: G. Selvakumar (Losheni Kumar) R. Rada (Maliga) G. Balakrishnan R. Kalyani G. Rajagopal Joanne Tang Yoke Kuen G. Rajan VijayaletchmiV.P.
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      56 36 KUMARAN CATERING RADHA NARAYANAN (SONA) passed away peacefully on 2 June 2008. Dearly missed and fondly remembered by loved ones. Husband: Narayanan Son: Kumaran Daughter: Pushpalata Son-in-law: K. Thirupathy Granddaughter: Divya Thirupathy friends family Blk 108, Bukit Purmei Road #07-101 S(*****8) Cortege will leave at 4pm for Mandai Crematorium Hall
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      58 36 The Family of the Late WOO CHOI SAM Departed on 29 May 2008 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives, friends, colleague? and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent, bereavement. Special thanks to doctors nurses of Changi General Hospital,
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      27 36 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory of Catherine Wee Slew Kheng 16th July 1951 3rd June 2007 Deeply missed and always remembered by husband, children, relatives and friends.
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      33 36 Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to The Family of The Late DR LEE KUM TATT (SQI HONORARY MEMBER) Departed on 1 June 2008 From The Management and all members of c SINGAPORE QUALITY INSTITUTE
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      107 36 OHM SHANTI SHIREN SISHITHAREN Age: 14 Was called home to be with the Lord on May 22,2008. His gentle smile and sweet nature never fails to melt the hearts of those around him. Though we miss him everyday, he will forever remain in our hearts. Through him, we were able
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      105 36 The family of the late Mrs Pauline Lim Peng Siang nee Chan Mci Lin Departed on 30 May 2008 Wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development and MP for Tampines GRC, Members of PCF Tampines East Supervisory Board and Branch
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        7513 37 TRANSACTION DATE: JUNE 2, 2008 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL '000 DAY HIGH LOW NET P/E M CAP SMIL 0R28 5 11C 3C 24 5 42 141 195 15 24 18 61 17 5 15 43 5 26 126 34 5 16
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        1435 37 52-WEEK PEL HIGH LOW CODE SMIL COMPANY CURRENCY LASP PRADED SALE 'VOL ORDAV 'OOO HIGH NET LOW MCAP P/E 30 41.; 31 16.; 38 70.; 22.; li.; 44.; 78 i;.; i; 16.; 17.1 9C 43 19.; 88 21 2.3 1 41.2 19.3 21 11.; 21.; 4;.; 14.; 17
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        66 37 52-WEEK IEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE 'VOL 'OOO DAY NEI P/E M CAP SMIL 0RHIGH LOW 20C 620C 100C 1120C 1250C 398.3 3977 c 116 6065 Diamonds 5200 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** 6101 ISS&P500 ***** 6170 SPDRS
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      317 38 BLOOMBERG NEWS Program allows users to put video and animation in documents San Francisco ADOBE Systems, the world's biggest maker of design software, has introduced a version of its Acrobat PDF program that lets users put video and animation in their documents.
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      292 38 BLOOMBERG NEWS Washington MANUFACTURING in the United States contracted less than forecast last month, easing concerns the economic slump would intensify. The Institute for Supply Management's factory index rose to 49.6 last month from 48.6 in April, the Tempe, Arizo-na-based group said yesterday.
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      372 38 BLOOMBERG NEWS Washington UNITED States government engineers are winding up laboratory tests that will help determine whether Google's plan to beam Internet searches over vacant airwaves will interfere with digital television signals. The findings will help regulators decide the future use of intervals
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      40 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 14,440.14 (+101.6 points) »Japanese shares closed up 0.71 per cent at the highest level for almost five months, as investors took heart from a stable yen and a recent drop in world oil prices.
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      27 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 24,831.36 (+298.24 points) Hong Kong share prices ended higher, up 1.22 per cent, as China stocks gained on bargain-hunting interest.
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      33 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 3,459.04 (+25.69 points) Chinese share prices closed up 0.75 per cent, as energy and power firms were boosted by hopes that the government would relax price controls.
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      31 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 5,662.3 (+7.6 points) The Australian share market was supported by gains in the energy and resources sectors but closed little changed, up 0.1 per cent.
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      23 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 1,262.49 (-13.88 points) Malaysian share prices finished 1.1 per cent lower amid profit-taking, following last week's gains.
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      28 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 16,063.18 (-352.39 points) »Indian share prices fell 2.15 per cent, reacting nervously to reports that the government was considering a fuel price hike.
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      35 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 2,427.77 (-16.58 points) »Indonesian shares closed 0.7 per cent lower, on fears that Bank Indonesia may aggressively hike its key interest rate on Thursday after inflation surged last month.
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      33 38 AFP Yesterday's close: 810.22 (-23.43 points) Tha i shares closed 2.81 per cent lower, as investors worried about heightened political tensions after a weekend stand-off between anti-government protesters and police.
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      113 38 YESTERDAY'S CLOSE: 3,188.05 June 2 Stock Name Close Change CapitaLand 6.350 -0.200 CapitaMall 3.390 +0.080 CityDev 11.400 +0.020 Cosco Corp 3.400 -0.020 DBS Grp 19.680 +0.180 F&N 5.000 +0.070 Gentlntl 0.645 +0.035 HKLand 4.730 -0.020 JSH 18.060 +0.060 Jardine C&C 16.480 +0.100 KeppelCorp 12.340 +0.220 Keppel
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      56 38 Gentlntl 137,770,000 Golden Agri 51,869,000 Oceanus 49,373,000 HLHGrp 41,053,000 China Hongxing 32,310,000 Sing Tel 31,696,000 CSC Hldgs 30,162,000 Rich Land 27,741,000 Yangzijiang 27,413,000 Jade Tech 22,602,000 Star Cruises 20,467,000 SingTelMBLePWOBlOlO 19,135,000 Sing Tel DBeCWOBO9OB 19,130,000 Ferrochina 19,006,000 Li Heng 18,600,000 Firstßes 18,547,000 Abterra 17,265,000 CoscoCorpDßeCWoBo929 16,570,000 DBS DB
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      141 38 June 2 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES: (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2940 1.3090 Can dollar 1.3610 1.3770 Euro 2.1070 2.1310 Malaysian ringgit* ..0.4226 0.4233 NZ dollar 1.0580 1.0810 Sterling pound 2.6770 2.7070 US dollar 1.3540
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      1456 38 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE: JUNE 2,2008 52-WEEK TEL HIGH LOW CODE COMPANY CURRENCY LAST VOLUME TRADED SALE '000 53 185 4481 Asia Water W*****0 18 5 -0 5 2 135 5 8756 AsiaticW*****2 8 5 +0 5 48 33 18 5 4014 CapitalanBNPeC*****8 22 5 3 5 3666 CapitalanBNPeCWOBOOOO
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      631 39  -  Maria Almenoar Industry body wants more liberalisation to cushion the impact of soaring fuel prices By In Istanbul GLOBAL airlines are facing losses that could exceed US$2.3 billion (553.2 billion), the industry forecast yesterday a setback not seen since the 2001 terrorist
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      Lock icon China telcos in mega-deals; Unicorn to buy Netcom
      420 39 REUTERS Hong Kong CHINA unveiled two mega-deals yesterday, as the government overhauls the world's largest telecommunications industry, with mobile operator China Unicorn taking over a fixed-line peer and unloading an underperforming network. Unicorn said it would issue new shares and swop 1.5
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      Lock icon Singapore aims to be 'Cannes of 3-D scene'
      696 40  -  Chua Hian Hou EYEING 3D SUCCESS Host of world's first festival of such films expects to draw many trade visitors and fans By CANNES may be the star of the international film festival circuit, but Singapore is making a bold play to
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        385 41  -  FIONA CHAN STARHUB president Mike Reynolds will be stepping down after only six months in the senior post. He will be leaving Singapore's second-largest telco next month to become the chief executive officer (CEO) of a firm outside Singapore, Star Hub said in
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        Lock icon $332K for case of wine
        354 41  -  Fiona Chan Little-known Singapore businessman pays record price for 12 bottles of 1990 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti By A HEADY $27,720 for a bottle of red wine. That's the bubbly amount a Singapore businessman paid at a wine auction in Hong Kong last Saturday. Mr
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        415 41  -  Alvin Foo By CALL him Mr Franchise. Singaporean Albert Kong has become one of only two foreigners among 50 recipients honoured by the China Chain Store Franchise Association (CCFA) for contributions to the franchising industry in the past decade. Mr Kong, 52, clinched a China
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      Lock icon Paltry returns from beef, so stock up for likely chicken run
      669 42  -  Lee Su Shyan Poultry farms need less grain and cause less pollution, says Morgan Stanley By Assistant Money Editor THERE is one message that the rocketing cost of food is delivering to investors beef and pork may soon get
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      Lock icon OCBC share offering stirs sleepy market
      508 42  -  Goh Eng Yeow TAKING STOCK By Markets Correspondent HOW dull is the market these days? Well, the only excitement stirring investors yesterday was a stock that was not even trading yet OCBC Bank's proposed preference share offering. So while shares drifted within a tight
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      96 42 June 2 GLD10US$ Lyxor China H 10US$ Daiwa FT Shariah lap DBS Bk 6% NCPS 10 Keppel Corp DBS Grp Venture Corp DairyFarm Asia Pac Brew Haw Par Corp SIA SembCorp Ind Jardine CSC Lyxor HangSeng10US$... Creative Tech JSH CapitaMall CENTS 8746 1801 1025 ***** 1234 1968 1020
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      86 42 June L utnib OCBC Bk 4.5%NCPS 100. ...***** 310.0 Lyxor India Nifty 10 1540 94.0 NOL 383 23.0 CapitaLand 635 20.0 Great Eastern 1804 20.0 0CBCCap3.93%Pref10 9970 20.0 IMH 3240 13.6 Ezra 288 12.0 SPC 679 11.0 IS HSCI India 100 701 10.9 SIA200 1600 10.0 Wilmar 546
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      Lock icon E3 takes on refinery deal without Jade
      428 42  -  r Fiona Chan By E-COMMERCE firm E3 Holdings, which had tied up with troubled Jade Technologies to buy an oil refinery in China, is now going it alone after Jade pulled out. E3 said yesterday it would pay 95.25 million yuan (5519.05 million)
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      84 42 June 2 CENTS /o NobleGrpSGAeCW*****0 27 SembHar RBeCW*****3 32 ChinaJishan 9 NH Ceramics 7 SembHar BNPeCW*****6 12 Compact 2.5 KepCorp DB eCW*****3 7.5 KepCorpMBLeCW*****6 18.5 Centillion 3 CommDesign 20 Joyas 23.5 FirstRes RBeCW*****7 3.5 Liang Huat 3.5 Gul Tech 7.5 Unidux 7.5 Alantac 16 DBS BNPeCW*****2 8.5 38.5
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      85 42 June 2 Digiland OSIM R Lankom DBS DB ePW*****4 KepCorp RB eCW*****7 DragonGp CapitalanBNPeCW080G0.. YangzijianRBeCW*****.. Hatex STI 3400BNPeCW*****7 ITE Elec CapitalandRBeCW***** Sup Pack Yoma Jets Technics DBS BNP ePW*****0 CapitalanSGAeCW***** CENTS 0.5 0.5 10.5 3 1.5 12 3.5 15 10 2 7 16.5 12 17 2.5 13.5 11
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      Lock icon Sing Tel contracts active on recent price swings
      322 42  -  Alvin Foo WARRANT WATCH By Markets Correspondent SINGTEL'S recent price swings have spurred fresh interest in its warrants. Contracts on the telco were the most active stock warrants yesterday, probably due to the relatively sharp movements in its mother share in the
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      Lock icon Retail investors get bite of $1b OCBC share offer
      734 43  -  Nicholas Fang They will get fair chance to buy shares, which give dividend of 5.1% By FRUSTRATED retail investors who were locked out of DBS Bank's $1.5 billion preference share sale last month have been promised a better deal from OCBC
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      20 43 STOCK 1.49 billion TRADING shares worth VOLUME $1.76 billion UP Gainers: 246 Losers: 341 DOWN Unchanged: 982
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      85 43 Mid Cap 802.86 A 2.43 Small Cap 672.21 T -2.26 All Share 811.89 T -0.65 Fledgling 719.06 T -0.87 China 469.18 T -2.63 Oil and gas 770.97 T -1.61 Basic materials 654.51 T -2.48 Industrials 780.45 A 4.22 Consumer goods 825.79 T-10.42 Health care 799.80 T -6.09
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      185 43  -  ALVIN FOO »NEW SERVICE FOR INVESTORS THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced a tie-up yesterday with Xinhua Finance News to profile companies listed on the FTSE ST China Index. Xinhua Finance News the core news product of Xinhua Finance will report regularly on the China
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      29 43 Cheers to a new record Singapore businessman Singgih Gunawan paid a record HK$l.B9 million for 12 bottles of what has been described as the world's scarcest wine. PAGE HlB
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      966 45 LAT-WP, NYT, Reuters LOS ANGELES Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died
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      219 46 Here's a look at the French designer's career PHOTOS 1954 (above): Saint Laurent is seen here with a drawing of his cocktail dress design that won him first prize in a fashion drawing competition a year earlier. The win led to his job with Christian Dior.
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      209 46 VETERAN fashion designer Thomas Wee, 59: "Yves Saint Laurent's works in the 1960s and 1970s inspired everyone from young designers to wannabes... I was most inspired by his French colour sense, the sumptuous opulence in his textile treatments and the mesmerising, dramatic themes of his collection each season.
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        73 79  -  Tan Chong Yaw PDF files are neat. They are small and they work across all platforms from Windows and Linux to Mac. Plus, these files are highly malware-resistant. Everyone has the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. But what if you need to create a PDF file
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        1225 80  -  Grace Chng Parting of a partnership AFTER 28 years, the powerful Microsoft tag team of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer ended last month with Bill leaving the day-to-day running of Microsoft to focus on his philanthropy work. The two were college mates at Harvard before Bill dropped out
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        242 83 School's out fun's in TAN CHONG YAW looks at some fun tech activities you can do with your kids this break HEY, it's the school holidays. Cut a little slack in your jam-packed schedule. It's time to get creative and to settle a few long-delayed PC housekeeping chores. First, the
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        615 83 CHILDREN, it seems, grow up overnight. But parents are still time-trapped. The snapshots you have of them as babes and tots remain frozen in an eclectic array of metal and porcelain photo frames. Well, if you need to freeze them in time, do it in
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        943 85  -  Chester Chen, Refresh your laptop and create paper models with these projects the family can do at home TURN that colour inkjet printer (or colour laser, if you have one) into a quick, cheap and fun holiday machine for the kids. Use it
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        578 85  - Don't wait for the computer to crash back up now Tan Chong Yaw EVERYONE should do it regularly. But few do. Until it is too late. Then, in a heartbeat, years of work and memories are lost forever. That's right. Back up your data. Data recovery services are available. But
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        69 86 DIGITAL cameras allow us to take photos easily. But what do you do with your shots? Use Apple's iPhoto application to organise, enhance, share and print your favourite images. Learn from the experts on June 7 and 8 from 1 to Bpm at these places: Epicentre
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        341 86 The New York Times Advertisers are spending more on non-traditional media like computer games THE Sims, a video game in which a virtual family is designed by players, is becoming more brand-conscious. Starting this month, people who play The Sims 2, the current version of the game, will
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          650 88 Take your pick as the content pipe for HD programmes fills up, says ALFRED SIEW IT IS like having a sharper screen with the same old images from the past few decades. While the prices of high-definition (HD) TV sets continue to plummet now under $1,500
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          156 90 NOTE that we had to pause the movie I Am Legend starring Will Smith (right) at various scenes and then spend a few minutes to spot the differences. When the movie played normally, there was no appreciable difference, we felt, on the HD-ready^^ and the full HD sets.
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          249 90  -  Oo Gin Lee and snerwin Loh MANY DVD and Blu-ray players and even the Play Station 3 can now upscale your DVD movies from its native 480p resolution to high-definition 720 p. Put simply, upscaling is a way of artificially adding pixels to the DVD
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          181 90 EURO 2008 fever is in the air. And if you are still hunting for that sexy high-definition (HD) TV to watch Ronaldo, Henry and Torres in action, here's the good news. One lucky Digital Life reader will walk away with a 40-inch full HD
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          272 91 The latest Blu-ray sizzlers let you store 25G8 of movies and music on a single-layer disc and watch all the high-def action on the latest r plasma or LCD telly screens. MX. WONG puts two main players to the test LG GGW-H20L Internal Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
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          218 91 BEFORE you get a Blu-ray burner, there are basic system requirements you need to be aware of. To start with, you need a pretty powerful PC system in order to play and create Blu-ray movies. Both the Sony and LG Blu-ray disc rewriters state the following minimum
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          161 91 $799 Get it from authorised Sony outlets WHEN compared with the LG GWW-H2OL, the Sony BWU-200S is only rated at 4x burn speed. However, the drive comes with a bigger buffer and is capable of burning DVD+/-RW dual layer discs at 8x speed, twice
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        1048 92  -  MICHAEL FITZGERALD The New York Times Obtaining computing resources from outside and paying only for what you use aka cloud computing is the future, experts say By CLOUD computing is the jargon of the moment in the technology industry. Google, IBM, Microsoft and
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          172 93 ►mobile phones HTC Touch Diamond The Diamond is now available at $1,098 at all authorised resellers YES, you could shell out near $1,000 for an iPhone. But not only is it terribly expensive, it's also crippled by a phone network that lags and lacks
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          124 93 ►music players Sony Walkman NWD-EO2OF Available at all authorised dealers from the middle of this month. Price unavailable DO YOU ever have the urge to blow your eardrums out with some Nirvana? Reach out for the Sony Walkman NWD-E020F to give your ears a
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          148 93 ►high-defTV Loewe Individual Compose Snag them now at Atlas Experience store at Millennia Walk. Prices start at $9,888 WHO says tech geeks and fashionistas don't see eye to eye? The Loewe Individual Compose proves that the Guc-ci-toting crowd do appreciate gadgetry. Decked in a head-turning
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          129 93 ►video recorder Creative Vado Pocket Video Cam Available at $169 at all Creative stores from June 12 FOR most first-time parents, you'll want to document every waking moment of the tyke's existence on your Facebook page. The Creative Vado Pocket Video Cam will help. It's lightweight
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          100 93 ►business solutions Canon iR C4oBoi The 4080 i multifunction device is now available at all authorised dealers. Price unavailable BUSINESS printers are usually huge and bulky and unattractive. Even worse, paper jams make users' lives a living hell. But the Canon iR C4oBoi multi-functional printer promises to
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          92 93 ►business solutions NEC Corporation's Eco Center server For additional information, visit www.nec.com NEC Corporation has unveiled the Eco Center server that is aimed at saving space and conserving energy. The device consumes up to 55 per cent less power as a result of adopting highly efficient batteries,
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        718 95  -  Oo Gin Lee Ninja Gaiden 2 THERE is blood on the dance floor and dismembered limbs aplenty. As master ninja Ryu Hayabusa that's what you do all day in Ninja Gaiden 2 execute your dances of death as you cut rival ninjas and demons down to size
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        129 95 YOUR eye is your greatest asset. Despite a great deal of gore, this game is not about senseless violence. Search the environment for secret tunnels and hidden passages. Exploration is key if you want cool items like health-increasing orbs. There are two main buttons for attacking X for light
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        121 95 Digital Life Microsoft Xbox Ninja Gaiden 2 Contest ONE lucky reader will walk away with a Ninja Gaiden 2 special edition Xbox 360 Elite set plus a copy of the just-released game, worth a total of $775. Three consolation prize winners will each win a copy of the game worth
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        274 95  -  Valentine Chua, Pinball Hall Of Fame: The Williams Collection FACE it: Pinball diehards, the people who like standing around in a dark, smoky room for their fix of tabletop upper-limb workout, will always be around. For these and all other pinball fans, there's now Pinball Hall
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        606 96  -  Oo Gin Lee RUN, ski, do step aerobics, walk a tightrope and spin five hoo-la-hoops simultaneously it's all in a day's work with the Wii Fit. And you and your kids can have an exercise blast on it this holiday. The English version
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        386 97  -  Tan Chong Yaw Nikon Coolpix PBO $699 Buy it at authorised dealers ALL of $2,648. That's how much it will cost for the equivalent in DSLR gear to match Nikon's new superzoom, the Coolpix PBO. Plus, you would have to lug a small backpack worth of a camera
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        222 97  -  Wilson Wong, a gadget enthusiast Nikon 5550 $449 Get it from authorised dealers SMILE, blink and distortion controls are the smarts that set the Nikon 5550 apart from the rest of the pack. The smile detection function is just dandy. And it works even for group shots.
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        608 98 SecurWorkplace $69.99 Download a free 30-day trial at www.ohanae.com AS THE Internet matures, so do the crooks that lurk in cyberspace. Installing virus protection and spyware removal software are not enough today to keep today's tech-sawy crooks at bay. You also need to guard
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        424 99  -  Adli Yashir, Freecom Tough Drive Pro external hard disk $249 For more information, call Kaira Technologies, tel: 6494-4876. Also available at Funan IT Mall Sim Lim AS SOON as I got this external hard drive out of the box, I dropped it twice. Then, I stuffed
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        608 100  -  Eric Chen, So you've Übuntu in the PC, but you need a software to help you open a Windows Excel file. Take a virtual tipple with Wine HQ YOU have just installed the latest open source operating system, Übuntu 8.04, and
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        832 101 Connecting people to better phones Anthropology and tech design may seem strange bedfellows but it is anthropologist Younghee Jung who helps Nokia live up to its tagline. STEPHANIE GWEE reports ANTHROPOLOGY is probably not a subject that will make big bosses perk up and notice you in the business world.
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        603 102  -  THAM YUEN-C Are music playlists the dead giveaway to the quintessential you? I HAVE no problems with lending my mobile phone to most people or leaving it lying around. But it was with some trepidation that I handed over my iPod Nano to a friend who
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