Today, 5 April 2003

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  • News
    • 150 3 ALTHOUGH the Ministry of Education is not expected to announce until Saturday whether it will extend the school closure, a private school provided a clue to the situation on Friday. The Tanglin Trust School posted an announcement on its website that the school will remain
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    • 364 3  -  Lee Ching Wern Female designer, 29, succumbs to Sars By chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THOUGH older and ill people are more likely to die from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), the deadly virus' sixth victim here was 29-year-old Chong Pei Ling, who died yesterday. The designer, who went to Hong Kong
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    • 320 3 Thailand's Don Muang airport was plunged into chaos as doctors and health officials hastily set up operations to screen all arrivals from the five Sars-infected countries in Asia China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. The Public Health Ministry requires all visitors from Sars-hit countries to wear masks
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    • 273 3  -  Lee Ching Wern THERE is no need for nurses to change out of their uniforms before taking public transport Nor is it fair to mistreat these people who are risking their lives to save others. That's the word from Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang,
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    • 1187 4  -  Val Chua Economic superpower still getting to grips with handling crises like Sars openly by 1 val@newstoday.com.sg FOR the first time, China's broadcast TV stations are devoting huge air time to the ongoing Iraq war and trying to establish their credibility as independent operators by sending
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    • 389 6 US one step closer to toppling Saddam's regime BAGHDAD US troops stormed through the gates of Baghdad's Saddam International Airport and seized the strategic position and symbol of President Saddam Hussein's power, US officials said on Friday. Even the name of the airport has been changed
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    • 204 6 -AFP WASHINGTON Both houses of the US Congress overwhelmingly passed similar budget amendments authorising almost US$BO billion ($141.7 billion) in funding to cover the costs of war in Iraq and the start of reconstruction. The Senate granted by 93-0 votes a request from President George W
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    • 180 6 Reuters NEW YORK CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta was pressed into service on the Iraqi battlefield as a doctor and as a reporter but it wasn't quite enough to save the life of a two-year-old Iraqi boy. Mr Gupta, who has been travelling with a Navy
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    • 179 6 A US commander, who was leading a push by marines through southern Iraq towards Baghdad, was relieved of his duties. No reason was given for the decision to relieve Colonel Joe Dowdy, commander of the Marines First Regimental Combat Team, public affairs officer Steven Schweitzer said. Three coalition
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    • 295 6 Agencies NEAR BAGHDAD US troops have found thousands of boxes containing vials of unidentified liquid and powder as well as manuals on chemical warfare at two plants near Baghdad, an American officer said on Friday. "It's unclear at this point what the vials contain and we're
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    • 202 8 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong will meet US President George W Bush in Washington on May 6, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said on Thursday. Mr Goh's press secretary Burhan Gafoor told Today that a visit to the White House is on the Prime
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    • 172 8 Tor Ching Li FORMER Workers' Party chief, Mr JB Jeyaretnam, will be holding a belated birthday cum fund-raising dinner at Hotel Grand Central tonight with a number of well-wishers. "My birthday was three months ago," said the 77-year-old. "But my friends thought it would be good
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    • 484 8  -  Derrick A Paulo Move to stay afloat as crisis worsens by derri ck@newsto day. com. sg IN just a fortnight, travel agents have gone from holding out for a lifesaver to holding on for dear life. Two weekends ago, fighting off the spectre of war in
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    • 139 8 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan has lost his appeal against the successful defamation suits brought against him by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. It was dismissed with costs by the High Court, which
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  • Humour/News
    • 789 10  -  Neil Humphreys Learn from the oldies WATCHING two oldtimers going through the preliminary stages of sexual foreplay is something you tend not to forget. When she was 10 years old, my mother was hiding under the kitchen table while her 60-year-old grandmother did the washing up
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    • 134 10 A COMPANY director has been charged with tax evasion. His case, which came up in court yesterday, will be dealt with on May 2. It is alleged that Mr Goh Ah Weng, a director with Kilowatts Engineering Construction, did not declare his director's fees for
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  • LETTERS
    • 366 11  -  Elaine Chua TanTock Seng nurses deserve our gratitude HAVING read reports about the behaviour of some people towards the nurses and employees of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), I find it sad how they have allowed their fears to override their reason. Has their fear of Sars made
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    • 204 11  -  Chia Ser Heng I WOULD like to pose a question to the Ministry of Health on the imposition of home quarantine because of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). The ministry requires those who have been in contact with Sars patients or suspected patients
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    • 202 11  -  Ananda Perera I REFER to the report, "It happened in Singapore" (Today, April 4). As a professional, I am proud of Associate Professor Lee Wei Ling and Dr Yee Woon Chee for resigning and blowing the whistle. I was especially impressed when I read the interview
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    • 112 11  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming I REFER to the report, "It happened in Singapore" (Today, April 4). There has been no word on the fate of the data derived from this research or the possible further development of treatments based on it Although the researchers may have
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    • 29 11 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax:6s-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg
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    • 112 11 TODAY and Ml pays tribute to NURSES caring for SARSpatients From all of us at TODAY and Ml, we want to say a heartfelt Thank You to our nurses. Your selfless attitude and dedication to your profession deserves all Singaporeans' deepest respect and admiration. While the rest of Singapore is
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  • BUSINESS
    • 307 12 Reuters Moody's: Steady outl MOODY'S Investors Service said on Friday that the medium-term outlook for all its "Aa" Singapore bank ratings remains stable, although downward pressure will rise over the longer term. Moody's also said that the stable outlook comes despite its expectation that continued economic weakness will
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    • 220 12 Chan Chao Peh SINGPOST'S maiden bond issue of $300 million was oversubscribed on the day it was launched as investors warmed to the attractively priced issue, which carries a coupon rate of 3.13 per cent The issue, which has a maturity date of 10 years, was
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    • 258 12 Bloomberg AS SINGAPORE and India begin work on a free-trade agreement, the immediate gainers from an accord are likely to be Indian engineers, accountants and other professionals. The Closer Economic Cooperation Agreement, which will be a goal of Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's trip
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    • Market Watch
      • 127 12 Reuters SINGAPORE shares ended higher on Friday, riding the wave of gains in regional markets as hopes of a quick end to the Iraq war were fired up by US forces seizing control of Baghdad airport. The Straits Times Index was up 0.86 per cent, or 11.19 points higher,
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      • 55 12 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 8074.12 56.37 0.70 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 8822.45 2896.30 4499.18 174.29 22.20 140.79 2.02 0.77 3.23 Korea Comp SET Index 558.01 371.93 12.77 6.81 2.34 1.87 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzen B 405.68 1090.66 212.78 4.92 28.17 8.30 1.23 2.65
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      • 35 12 USS 0.5623 UK£ 0.3592 Yen 67i04 o'nnT c Euro 0.5300 Rupiah 4998 9 Ba t 24 256 Peso 29.941 A$ 0.9381 lndianßs 26i55 rt" rmn I Yuan 4.6539 NZ$ 1.0357 NTS 19.578
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      • 20 12 Gold uss/oz 322.55 Silver uss/.z 441.3 Platinum uss/oz 609.7 Rubbers/kg 181.75 Palm oil RM/.onne 1487 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.97
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      • 55 12 iy volume Vpril 4 Chartered SingTel TPV ComfortDelGro ST Engg HLAsia DatatrftUSS ACCS StarCrusUSS SembCorp Close 0.665 1.420 0.485 0.800 1.830 1.280 0.540 0.350 0.200 1.140 Change +0.015 +0.015 -0.035 +0.020 +0.050 +0.010 +0.040 +2.3 +3.2 -4.2 +1.1 +4.1 +1.9 +3.6 '000 13,883 12,058 11,980 11,525 11,124
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      • 79 12 By$ April 4 Close Change Venture 14.500 +0.400 Creative 50 11.500 +0.300 SIA200 9.300 +0.300 SIA 9.250 +0.250 C&C 4.160 +0.120 STIETF100 13.270 +0.120 DBS Bk6% NCPS *****.300+0.100 JMH400USS 5.850 +0.100 KepCorp 4.440 +0.100 OCBC 9.650 +0.100 By percentage April 4 Close Change L&M 0.010 +100.0 Excel
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      • Article, Illustration
        84 12 afp aercc information provided by: Iy$ Vpril 4 SPH Close Change 17.600 -0.200 SPH 100 17.600 -0.200 OSIM Noble ComfortDelGro 0.750 -0.180 1.650 -0.050 0.800 -0.035 Aspial AURIC 0.250 -0.030 0.970 -0.030 Ossia 0.235 -0.030 SingTel 10 Sp Comp 1.400 -0.020 0.815 -0.020 ly percentage Ipril 4
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  • WEALTH MANAGEMENT
    • 720 13  - To avoid heartache Lee Yew Meng Plan your finances early before tying the knot by yewmengiffnewstoaay.com.sg FEW young couples have a detailed, heart-to-heart "financial talk" before tying the knot. And that, financial planners say, can result in heartache and marital distress problems they could avoid if they planned ahead. True,
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  • SAVVYINVESTOR/ Co-ordinated by VAL CHUA
    • What The Experts Say ...
      • 96 14 Singapore Press Holdings Sell UOB Kay Wan THE Straits Times' recruitment ad volume for March showed a decline of 5.6 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y). Although February registered a 19 per cent y-o-y growth (due to a low base in Feb 02), it was down 10 per cent month-on-month.AII leading indicators
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      • 54 14 Singapore Airlines Buy DBS Vickers Securities SIA shares have been brutalised by the Sars scare, coming close on the heels of less-than-perfect progress in the Iraq war. Investor skittishness is understandable, and it creates a rare opportunity for the brave. With downside protection at $9, shares offer attractive returns with
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      • 90 14 BeyonicsTechnology Buy UOB Kay Hian BEYONICS has proposed a merger with Sesdaq-listed Flairis Technology.The merger to be sealed by July provides economies of scale and a diversified customer base for Beyonics' contract manufacturing business. The company will gain entry into the Japanese outsourcing market with new clients like Panasonic and
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      • 82 14 Osim International Buy DBS Vickers Securities OSIM is paying $9,568 million in cash for a 29.9 per cent stake in Global Active, the holding company for GNC outlets in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.The rationale behind the purchase is Osim's expectations of exponential sales growth for nutraceutical products in Asia in
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      • 109 14 OCBC Investment Research TPV Technology will release the final results of the last financial year next Monday. We are projecting a 17 per cent y-o-y increase in net profit on the back of a 23 per cent topline growth. If the war is prolonged, there may be an
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      • 58 14 ComfortDelGro Buy DBS Vickers Securities COMFORTDELGRO shares began trading on April I. A defensive stock that also sports respectable growth, ComfortDelGro will become Singapore's largest land transport company, and the likely preferred stock for investors wishing to invest in the sector. Despite significant advances in component stocks leading up to
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      • 48 14 Ocean Sky International Buy DBS Vickers Securities The results of the last financial year were in line with the management's forecasts.The management is progressively upgrading and expanding the production facilities. We believe that Ocean Sky is well-positioned for further growth. Maintain BUY, with a price target of S$O.3S.
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    • 593 14  -  Teo Hwee Khee Asian bonds attractive as region is on a slow growth phase: Analyst by... newsWnewstoday.com.sg BONDS have done well for the past few years, and it appears that their run may not be over yet Some segments of the bond market like US Treasuries
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    • 386 15 Reuters Punters betting on rising drug company sales after outbreak of disease SHANGHAI Chinese investors searching for solace from the spread of the deadly flu-like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus need look only to drug company shares, which are likely to keep outperforming the
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    • 4048 15 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Enquiries:Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com 3/4 N1UC Enhanced 0.682 3/4 N1UC Europe Eqty 0.536 3/4 N1UC Global Bond 1.028 3/4 N1UC Global Eqty 1.311 3/4 N1UC Growth 0.997 3/4 N1UC Japan Eqty 0.533 3/4 N1UC Prime 2.659 3/4 N1UC Singapore Bond 1.187 3/4 N1UC Singapore Eqty 0.939 3/4
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    • 207 14 Company Forecast EPS P/E Ratio PEG 12-Mth Price Target AUSSINO GROUP LIMITED 0.03 7.74 0.55 0.40 CSE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 0.05 7.37 0.02 0.54 EASTERN ASIA TECHNOLOGY LTD 0.11 4.65 0.16 0.96 FIRST ENGINEERING 0.05 7.52 -0.20 0.65 GOODPACK LIMITED 0.04 10.71 0.66 0.72 HONG LEONG ASIA LIMITED 0.12 10.79 1.83
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  • Property Watch
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      367 16  -  Lee Yew Meng Wet markets hit by bad times and stiff competition by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg THE INCREASING popularity of supermarkets and hypermarkets here is having a dampening impact on "wet markets" in mature HDB towns. Recently, seven wet market stalls in Ang Mo Kio, Geylang Bahra, Ghim Moh and
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    • 133 16 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH), which runs two of Singapore's seven free-to-air television channels, said three top executives of its TV unit have resigned following the dismissal of the unit's chief executive. Chief Financial Officer Cheng Shoong Tat is the latest to quit
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    • 137 16 Bloomberg ONE major US franchise is suffering because of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak while another is piping hot Starbucks Corp, the biggest US chain of coffee shops, said sales in Asia, especially Singapore and Hong Kong, declined because of the Sars
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    • 68 16 Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings, South-east Asia's biggest bank, said it fired 30 employees, or about 10 per cent, of its stock brokerage unit to cut costs. DBS, which acquired Vickers Ballas Holdings Singapore's biggest brokerage in 2001 is reducing employees as global markets plunge and
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    • 60 16 SINGAPORE and Sri Lanka will study the prospect of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in the second half of this year. The study to enhance economic relations came following Minister of Foreign Affairs S Jayakumar's meeting with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando
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    • 404 17 Agencies N Korea fears being targeted after Iraq PYONGYANG After Iraq, will the US attack North Korea? That is what Pyongyang is worried about as North Korean President Kirn Jong II made his first public appearance in 50 days. Analysts said Mr Kirn's visit to a
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    • 132 17 AFP SEOUL South Korean stocks plunged briefly on Friday after TV stations wrongly reported that Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates had been assassinated. The leading stock price index shed 1.5 per cent when state-invested MBC TV ran the first flash, followed shortly by 24-hour
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    • 157 17 -AFP JAKARTA A former director of Indonesia's central bank has been sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of corruptly failing to monitor insolvent banks properly during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Heru Supraptomo is the second former central bank
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    • 161 17 AFP AUCKLAND Police and lawyers are descending on the British Pacific territory of Pitcairn Island where they will lay sex charges against many of the island's men. The colony of 44 people, 2,160 km, south-east of Tahiti, fears for its future because of the
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    • 176 17 AFP SYDNEY An Australian woman who spent A 5255,000 ($270,000) mistakenly deposited in her toddler's bank account on drugs, gambling and friends walked away free on Friday after a judge gave her a suspended jail term. Jodie Parchomenko, a 30-year-old mother of four, was
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    • 155 17 AFP HAVANA The Cuban authorities said they are negotiating to end a stand-off with armed hijackers who took 40 passengers on board a ferry hostage on Wednesday. President Fidel Castro has arrived on the scene to oversee the negotiations with the eight to 10
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  • COMMENTARY/HUMOUR
    • 1271 18  - Sars a test of character Simon Tay This is a good opportunity to find out more about ourselves by weekend@newstoday.com.sg THERE is, unfortunately, no comfort in being right about bad things. At the start of the year, I warned: "Some Singaporeans think Singapore sits comfortably inside a bubble that can
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    • 801 19  -  Dave Barry EVERY year, we return to Orlando, Florida. Instinct makes us do this. We are like the salmon that must swim upstream to spawn and die. They are lucky. We must go to theme parks. A theme park is an amusement park where you
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  • WATZUP?
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      1444 20  -  Felix Cheong 'Leslie, actors have learnt to let go but not you... you never knew whei -W by news@newstoday.com.sg APRIL is the cruellest month, Americanborn British poet T S Eliot once wrote. How true. How apt, Leslie, that you had timed your death at the beginning of spring, when
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    • 631 21  -  Serene Foo by serenecffnewstoaay.com.sg IT WAS an uncanny interview in which I didn't have to ask a lot of my questions. I just thought them. Believe it or not, after my first question, healer Anne Jones (picture) was already answering
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    • INTUNE
      • 507 22  -  Janice Lee After a three-year hiatus, Hootie &the Blowfish returns with a fresh perspective by. ianice@newstoday.com. sb FOR some musicians, a revamp means a sharper nose, or a new set of boobs. For the down-to-earth rock band, Hootie the Blowfish, it involved little more than a
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      • 149 22 DAVID Gray (picture) is the latest to join the list of artistes including Moby and Blue who have cancelled planned concerts in Singapore. The British singer-songwriter, who catapulted to fame with his fourth album, White Ladder, earned a nomination in the best new artiste
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      • Article, Illustration
        270 22  -  AsifAnsar Elisa Chia Various Artistes: Cradle 2 the Grave (Def Jam/Bloodline Records) THE Jet Li and DMX co-starrer Cradle 2 the Grave may be a dud but its rapfuelled soundtrack offers more than its fair share of head bopping, hip-swinging moments.The album stands out from the many less-than-memorable, hip
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    • FAMILY/FEATURES
      • 710 23  -  Theresa Tan It has been tough but parents will miss surprise week-long break PICTURE this. There is a viral outbreak. A: a parent, you think that the safest thing 1 do is to keep all the family members at home... in a secret room that is
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      • 501 23  -  Justine Moss Four exciting cooking classes by eatout@newstoday.com.sg AN appealing thing about the Singapore Food Festival is that it provides opportunities for food-lovers to roll their sleeves up and get their hands "dirty" while preparing and cooking food. Instead of taking the easy way out and
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    • EAT OUT
      • 563 24  -  Gurmeet Singh There are little pockets of history and culture to be discovered in Singapore by eatouKffnewstoday.com.sg ORIGINALLY scheduled for April 13 as part of the Singapore Food Festival, the Central Singapore Food and Heritage Trail has been postponed to July 20. The Central Singapore Community
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      • 571 24  -  Richard Seah by eatout@newstoday.com.sg Eating healthily is more important than ever these days. From this edition, Weekend Today will feature a healthy recipe that is both delicious and good for boosting the body's immune system each week. BOOSTING the immune system is key to
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    • EPICURE
      • 1058 25  -  Jeff Yang Fine wine and food pair up at the World Gourmet Summit by eatouKffnewstoaav.com.se BODEGA Torres kicked off the first of 12 wine master classes in this year's World Gourmet Summit, parading eight vintages of the Torres Mas La Plana one of Spain's best-known red wines. The
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      • 385 25  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatoutwnewstoaay.com.sg SPAIN is the third-largest wine producer in Europe.Yet, wines from this country remains off the radar screen of local wine lovers. For bargain hunters looking for world-class wines, this is a blessing. The wines of Spain are as diverse as its
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      • 587 26  -  Deirdre Lim Find out how white, grey and metallic tones give this small flat a larger-than-life feel by news@newstoday.com.sg ENTERING this well-lit and spacious apartment, it is difficult to imagine that it was formerly a gloomy and spatially tight flat in the 30-year-old Queensway neighbourhood. Nevertheless, the owners
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    • INSIDEOUT
      • 571 27  -  Nicholas Chan A Balinese-style sanctuary will never go out of fashion in urban Singapore by news@newstoday.com.sg A REFRESHING tropical breeze seems to brush past you as you enter this four-room apartment in Chua Chu Kang. The request from the home owners during the planning stage was for a
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    • DRiVE
      • 626 32  -  Colin Yong The Sorento has the looks and ability to succeed but pricing concerns may delay its arrival here by colin@newstoday.com.sg No self-respecting car manufacturer wants to be caught dead without a full-sized sport-utility vehicle (SUV) in its line-up these days. BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are
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      • 254 32 What's new and hot in car showrooms this month: Citroen C3 With a spacious cabin and lively 75bhp 1.4-litre engine, the C3 is a great little town car that will give class favourites like the Honda Jazz and Mitsubishi Colt a run for their money. The more
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      • 139 32 IF YOU have been bitten by the racing bug after watching the recent Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang Fl Circuit (picture), here is a piece of good news the circuit has just reopened after months of closure for race preparations and a track
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    • Article, Illustration
      328 33 HAIR YOU CAN EAT Go crazy over these funky candies. Just pop open the cap, twist the base and you have groovy "hair" candy growing out of the bottle. The Lucas Crazy Hair gooey fruit candy is available in four flavours hot and sour chamoy enchilado, sour strawberry twist,
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 1062 34  -  Yong Shu Chiang Found footage film-making gives rise to new cinematic works FRED Astaire, a I man who could seemingly dance on air, delivered a special performance on American television a few years ago. He was on the dance floor, graceful and mesmerising, taking his partner,
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      • 92 35 -Reuters LOS ANGELES Lord of the Rings star Liv Tyler (picture) has married her long-time musician boyfriend, Royston Langdon, in a private ceremony in the Caribbean, Tyler's publicist said on Thursday. Tyler, 25, and Langdon, the former frontman of British band Spacehog, tied the
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