Today, 24 May 2003

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  • 819 1  -  Lee Ching Wern WHO man on the infection that tripped Singapore by chingwernt-Jnewstoday.com.sg WHODUNNIT? Or, more accurately, where was it done? The biggest mystery on the Sars landscape Where did Mr Lee Chong Kian pick up his infection? has opened the door for Singapore to ease
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  • NEWS
    • 475 2  -  Janice Lee Trophy for 280-yard hole-in-one to be auctioned for charity by jani ce@newstoday.com.sg THE Senior Minister's passion for golf is legend. What's less well known is that he owns not one, but two trophies for that rarest of sporting achievements a hole-in-one. Especially remarkable to sports
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    • 243 2  -  -Jose Raymond THE shadow of a former employee seems to be following one of Singapore's most prosperous credit cooperatives around. The Telecoms Credit Co-operative (TCC) first faced a probe by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. Now, the Police have stepped in to investigate a possible criminal
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    • 88 2  -  Channel News Asia IN the wake of the Iraq war and recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and Casablanca, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan warned that Singapore is still a potential target for terrorists. He said this after visiting the Defence Science and Technology Agency and
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    • 728 3  -  Tan Hui Leng Please don't believe everything in Malaysian papers, says XL official by huilengtg'news.oday.com.sg FROM the daily news coming out of Malaysia, one would think that its Deputy Secretary-General for Health Datuk Dr Ismail Merican has a problem with Singapore's Sars screening process. But speak to him
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    • 207 3  -  Tor Ching Li TOTAL fatalities from Sars: 31. Total fatalities from "Singapore's OK" campaign: thousands. Besides the intensified trapping and culling of stray animals, especially cats, it seems that the Stray Cat Rehabilitation Scheme has also been put down abruptly. Under this scheme, residents' complaints
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    • 220 3  -  Lee Ching Wem COME June 1, visitors will be allowed back into all public hospitals, but they will have to adhere to strict visiting hours, with only one visitor per patient Tan Tock Seng Hospital will also start shedding its mantle as the Sars-dedicated hospital
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    • Article, Illustration
      209 4 A RAINTREE which had been growing for 70 years on land earmarked for the new Singapore Management University (SMU) campus would have reduced the area for the planned library by as much as 30 per cent But instead of chopping it down, SMU decided to transplant the tree,
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    • 446 4  -  Joy Frances Conveyance lawyer did not act in clients' interest by joycffnewstoclay.com.sg A CONVEYANCE lawyer was struck off the Bar yesterday at the High Court for gross improper conduct, failing to act in his clients' interests and acting without their instructions. Michael Quan, 38, was found guilty last
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    • 185 4 •THEWorld Health Organisation (WHO) lifted its Sars travel warning for Hong Kong and Guangdong on Friday as researchers said the killer disease may have crossed to humans from wild cats in southern China (see page 14). HONG Kong health officials said they were investigating a mysterious Sars outbreak
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    • 200 4  -  Tan Hui Leng EVEN before it was announced that ministers would get a 10 per cent pay cut in July, their pay was already half of what they would receive if they were in the private sector. Ministers' pay are benchmarked
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  • HUMOUR/NEWS
    • 756 6  -  Neil Humphreys If you want to save your reproductive organs by neil@_iews_oday.com.sg IT'S taken me over six years, but I wish to register a complaint with the Land Transport Authority. A number of Singaporeans have complained recently about MRT safety barriers and they have convinced me
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    • 345 6 KUALA LUMPUR Two rival leaders within Malaysia's main ethnic Chinese party quit on Friday in an effort to safeguard unity within the ruling coalition with its eyes on a general election expected in the middle of next year. Simultaneous resignations by Malaysian Chinese
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    • 163 6 BANGKOK Tourists arriving in Thailand will get US$lOO,OOO ($173, 000) if they die after becoming infected with the Sars virus in the kingdom. "One hundred thousand US dollars will be paid to tourists who are infected with the virus in Thailand and
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  • LETTERS
    • 372 8  -  Randi Tan An SIA worker appeals to the airline's pilots AS A customer service officer with Singapore Airlines (SIA), I read with great disappointment and sadness your report, "Stormy skies ahead" (Today, May 22). It quoted a veteran pilot as saying that SIA pilots are the
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    • 228 8  -  Yak Chin Hua 1 RKb JiK to the report, Saying it again with pay cuts" (Today, May 23). The Government has announced a significant pay cut for ministers and top civil servants to show its resolve on the need for wage restraint and reforms in
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    • 291 8 Your letter can also 4^—^ appear on this page. Give your full name -^^^***** ji and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #2801/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax:65-*****217; E-mail: news@newstoday.com.sg Manual Search y^--_ ""^sy. Tune your TV set to an unused r- Look for the MENU, PRESET or
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  • WEALTH MANAGEMENT
    • 568 9  -  Lee Yew Meng but make sure you do your retirement sums early by yemneng@newstoday.com.sg TAKE UP golf, go on vacations, have long lunches and buy what you want Yes, nothing beats the joy of retirement life when money is not a problem. This is the
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  • SAVVYINVESTOR/CO-ORDINATED BY VAL CHUA
    • MARKETWATCH
      • 602 10  -  Chew Sutat by news@newstoday.com.sg THERE is a humbling saying in the stock market that goes like this: "In a bull market, everyone is a genius." It is so easy picking stocks when the sentiment is bullish especially when the real economic conditions, or fundamentals of
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    • WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ...
      • 104 10 Singapore Airlines Avoid Standard Poor's Equity Research DESPITE being blessed with able managers, an excellent brand name and a strong balance sheet, SIA is unable to escape the three-pronged attack of a weak global economy, hostilities in the Middle East and the Sars virus. Passenger traffic for SIA has fallen
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      • 72 10 Seksun Market Perform OCBC Investment Research SEKSUN'S IQO3 results were affected by normal seasonal weakness and a high base in IQO2 as demand for data storage surged after Sep I I prompted increased concerns about data security. However, there are signs that 2Q could be better. Management expressed cautious optimism
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      • 66 10 Phillip Securities Research AFTER monitoring the Sars situation in China, the management has decided to resume opera tions in two of its three suspended plants.The scale of these operations will be toned down. There could still be upside potential for the stock though we remain cautious
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      • 54 10 Eastern Asia lech Outperform OCBC Investment Research EASTERN Asia made a small profit of $800,000 in IQO3 even as revenue surged 74 per cent year-on-year to 133.4 million.The results were slightly better than expected. EAT is on track to increase earnings by 23 per cent this year to $30 million.We
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    • 614 10 Fundsupermart Four winners among the 200 odd unit trusts in the market Have you sworn off all unit trusts after some hits and misses? Don't. A bit of homework goes a long way in helping you pick the winners. Fundsupermart has shortlisted 28 out of over 200
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  • BUSINESS
    • 322 11  -  Francis Kan _/_?i J Share price plunges as its two major shareholders clash over dividend issue by franciscgnews.oaay.com.sg JUST months after it hit a two-year high, Nat Steel Limited's share price is feeling the effects of having its two major shareholders clash over the issue of dividend payouts.
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    • 289 11  -  Val Chua IT GIANT Hewlett-Packard (HP) said sales in Asia may be affected by the Sars crisis which has slowed down demand for its products in countries like Hong Kong and China. "We can't ignore the impact of Sars. Customers and channel partners are reluctant
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    • 132 11 Bloomberg VENTURE Corp, the biggest electronics maker listed on the Singapore stock exchange, said first-quarter profit rose 31 per cent on higher sales. Net income was $42.4 million, or 17 cents a share, from $32.3 million, or 13.3 cents, a year earlier. That compares
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    • 102 11 AFX-Asia FRASER Neave (F&N) said it is proposing to buy back up to 37.6 million shares through two separate capital reduction exercises and, at the same time, sell 12.1 million shares in Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) at $8.63 each, net of the dividends declared by OCBC.
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    • Market Watch
      • 115 11 Reuters SINGAPORE shares finished higher for a second day on Friday, led by banks, as investors looked beyond the fallout from Sars. Even Singapore Airlines, which warned of its first-ever quarterly loss on Wednesday, rose 15 cents to $9.55 in a second day of gains after announcing pay cuts
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      • 64 11 Index Value Change Pts NIKKEI 225 INDEX HANG SENG INDEX 8184.76 9303.73 133.10 172.24 1.65 1.89 4SX ALL ORDINARIES INDX 2967.00 31.30 1.07 FAIWAN: WEIGHTED INDEX 4349.52 78.22 1.83 KOREA COMPOSITE INDEX 611.51 16.13 2.71 FHAI STOCK EXCHG OF THAI 395.52 6.90 1.78 JAKARTA COMPOSITE INDEX 472.11 6.98
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      • 36 11 USS 0.5802 UK£ 0.3539 Yen 67.850 HKS 4.5249 RM 2.2048 Euro 0.4920 Rupiah 4799.8 Baht 24.308 Peso 30.647 A$ 0.8785 Indian Rs 27.215 Won 692.89 C$ 0.7990 Yuan 4.8023 NZ$ 0.9914 NTS 20.141
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      • 22 11 SGX Gold uss/oi 369.95 Silver uss/oz 4.66 Platinum uss/oi 660 Rubber cents/kg 178.5 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1498 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.15
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      • 80 11 Iy$ flay 23 Bukit Sem Close Change 11.000 +0.500 By percentage May 23 MediaS Close Change 0.015 +50.0 OUE Venture 6.350 +0.400 15.600 +0.400 SimSiangC Wah Shing 0.140 +40.0 0.090 +38.5 APB Breweries 5.450 +0.300 CraftP 0.075 +36.4 GreatEast 9.000 +0.250 U0LW*****2 0.770 +36.3 JurEng Robinson SIA
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      • 82 11 Bloomberg Iy$ flay 23 Prima Seaview NatSteel Ho Royal UOI Close Change 6.050 -0.200 5.200 -0.200 2.410 -0.090 1.180 -0.070 2.980 -0.060 By percentage May 23 Close Change New Toyo W*****7 0.025 -16.7 PNE Ind W*****8 0.030 -14.3 IPSC0M 0.100 -13.0 TMCInt 0.185 -9.8 Aspial 0.250 -9.1
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    • 487 12 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia Bloomberg AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia AFX-Asia HIGHER COSTS: The consumer price index (CPI) in April rose 0.9 per cent year on year, driven by the higher cost of housing, education and healthcare, said the Department of Statistics. Compared to March, the CPI was up
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    • 3420 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Vie data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, leriodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilaons is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or soliciutions to buy or sell
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  • WORLD
    • 600 14 White S African raised by blacks seeks parents JOHANNESBURG It was seeing a picture of himself in a television programme on missing people that sparked a dream in Mr Happy Sindane (picture), the white South African teenager allegedly kidnapped as a child and raised by a
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    • 148 14 AFP HONG KONG They may be called civet cats but these animals (picture), which researchers say are the source of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), are from the same family as the mongoose. A Hong Kong government statement said researchers at the University of Hong
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    • 59 14 -AFP photo An Algerian sitting in front of his wrecked house in a village at Boumerdes, one of the areas hit on Thursday by the country's worst earthquake in 20 years. At least 1,467pe0p1e died and more than 7,200 were injured. A multinational rescue team is
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    • 304 14 Agencies HASWA (Iraq) Away from the diplomatic tensions at the United Nations Security Council, celebratory gunfire rattled across Iraq's countryside as Iraqis rejoiced over the lifting of 13 years of sweeping UN sanctions. "I am very, very happy It's like
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    • 570 15 Ay Keeping Young Lives On Track. W Celebrating Youth Day This Year and Every Year. Come July 6,150 teenagers will be running through a set trail in Sentosa to improve the quality of their lives and others like them. The Streetwise Run is a competitive quarter marathon, where disadvantaged and
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  • COMMENTARY/HUMOUR
    • 912 16  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla More needs to be done to ease pressures of family and career on working mums by news@newstoday.com.sg ONCE again, another Mother's Day has come and gone. Once again, it has passed by in a venal ritual of gift-giving, dining out and sales for
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    • 823 17  -  Dave Barry How lampreys and flagrant pork took a ride on the US war bill! by weekendCSnewstoday.com.sg IT'S time to sing about some unsung heroes of the recent war in Iraq. These heroes were not in Iraq, but they were serving in a
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    • 304 18 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES The Matrix Reloaded may be one of the biggest hits of the year but co-director Larry Wachowski will need more than bullettime martial arts to collect his full pay cheque for the film. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has frozen
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    • 138 18 INVESTORS of Australian film company Village Roadshow are unlikely to see profits from The Matrix Reloaded'^ huge international box office grosses, reports Studio Briefings. Reloaded has just recorded the biggest-ever opening weekend in Australia. Although it looks like a windfall for Roadshow, a co-investor in
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    • Article, Illustration
      13 18 Ocean Butterflies' music director Billy Koh with a poster ofA-do in the background.
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    • 946 19  -  Serene Foo A-do may be a well-known name now but he was a languishing artiste before a gutsy firm called Ocean Butterflies stepped in by serene@newstoday.com.sg LAST April, homegrown singer A-do skyrocketed to fame in Taiwan, Singapore and China with his debut album Nightfall. It sold
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    • 34 19 Entry forms for the Extraordinary Singer Course are available atHMV, Music Junction and CD Rama. You can also log on to www.geocities. com/obmusicforest. The closing date is next Wednesday. For more details, call *****311.
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  • WATZUP?
    • SPECIAL FEATURE
      • 434 20  -  Cathleen Tung By ca_hleen._ung@newstoday.com.sg THE Heeren Shops first came into the limelight in 2000, when it replicated the heady and vibrant Harujuku shopping experience characterised by niche boutiques selling an eclectic range of merchandise. Located on the fourth and fifth levels of The Heeren, this area
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    • IN TUNE
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        360 21 Reuters Unending legal action puts Jacko in hospital LOS ANGELES Superstar Michael Jackson was hospitalised briefly for dehydration after suffering what a Jackson family lawyer called a "reaction to lawsuits". Jackson, 44, fell ill in Indianapolis shortly before a deposition in a copyright lawsuit "Some people react to
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        181 21  -  I AsifAnsar Blur:ThinkThank(EMl) WELCOME to Blur's new vision adventurous as a world traveller and broad as the horizon.The boys from London return to form with a set of experimental and intriguing, if not exciting, songs. The opener, Ambulance, lets us know where the band and frontman Damon Albarn are
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    • FAMILY
      • 691 22  -  Theresa Tan When your loved one dies of a deadly illness THE story of the Tan Tock Seng nurse who died last week from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) moved me immensely. To me, she was as brave as any soldier on the frontline of
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    • HEALTH
      • 623 23  -  Lynette Leong Find out how good and bad bacteria affect our stomachs by news(s >news_oday.com.sg MENTION the word "bacteria" and many of us think of disease-causing germs that must be destroyed at all cost. What you may not know is that there are billions of bacteria
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      • 117 23 WHILE we cannot stop bad bacteria from invading our bodies, we can introduce good bacteria into our digestive system. Here's how. Cultured milk drinks Every bottle of cultured milk drink comes packed with billions of the world-famous live good bacteria lactobacillus which help to stimulate
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    • SHOPTALK
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        58 24 No more mashed-up candies each time you stuff your leftovers in your bag. Popular snacks from Effem Foods Inc now come in resealable Traveller containers for easy storage, so you can enjoy M&M's Peanut, M&M's Chocolate, Maltesers and Skittles anytime and anywhere. The Traveller range of candies are
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      • 95 24 Can't decide how much coffee powder to use for your cuppa? Now NESCAFE has a new line of three-in-one coffee that will give you the right blend all the time. The NESCAFE Rich is a full-bodied coffee for those who love a strong brew. Those who prefer a
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      • 78 24 Make ironing less of a chore with the new Ichiban Savvy Station. This iron allows you to do your ironing minus the ironing board, thanks to the vertical steam function. You can even iron your wrinkled garment on a hanger to save time when
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      • 98 24 Clean your contact lenses in one easy step with the ReNu Multi Plus. It consists of a Tri-Action formula that removes protein, disinfects and rewets contact lenses, giving you clean lenses with long-lasting comfort Receive a free Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Thermal Mug when you purchase the
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    • MAGGI® HOMECHEF the culinary expert
      • 258 25  -  Pauline D Loh Homemade crab and clam soup has refreshingly-clear flavours by pauline@newstoday.com.sg SOUTH-EAST Asia is fortunate to have an abundance of seafood. In fact, we all tend to take fresh seafood pretty much for granted in this region. As a result, we have a rich repertoire
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        133 25 WINNING LETTER: I have just tried the wonderful MAGGI® vegetarian oyster sauce made with mushrooms. Our family has been totally vegetarian for the last 15 years, and we are always looking for sauces that are meatless. Finally, we found a delicious alternative. Can we have more vegetarian products from
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      • Article, Illustration
        164 25 Preparing seafood WE all love seafood and we are fortunate to have access to a vast variety in the region. It pays, however, to remember certain basic rules when it comes to handling and preparing seafood. Fish and crustacean are very perishable and should not be allowed to
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      • 242 25 Miww... inu<.+ be, m& and tv\A&&\. Ingredients: (Serves 4 or more) 2 teaspoons MAGGI® Concentrated Chicken Stock 1 litre water 2 flower crabs, cleaned, quartered 300gm white clams in shell, rinsed thoroughly 1 thin slice ginger lOOgm minced chicken 1 shallot chopped 200gm mixed
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    • EPICURE
      • 383 26  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatout@newstoday.com.sg HAVE you heard of a Nero D'Avola or a Corvina? Or perhaps an Albarino? If you haven't, welcome to the growing club of off-the-beaten-track varietals that are attracting the attention of wine consumers. For most of the last three decades, wines made
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      • 469 26  -  Sophie Pritchard Yummy porridge with abalone mushrooms instead offish by eatout@newstoday.com.sg In the following weeks, Today and the Vegetarian Society (Singapore) will bring you a weekly column featuring recipes and restaurants for the green generation. SOME people become vegetarians gradually on their own. Madam Wong Thai Thai (picture,
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    • EAT OUT
      • 604 27  -  Katrina Karim Come back for the famous char kway teow and chicken chop by eatout@newstoday.com.sg AFTER months of extensive renovation, the Zion Road food centre has reopened. Now called the Zion Riverside Food Centre, it offers patrons a comfortable and spacious premise ideal for enjoying hearty
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        129 27 NEW AT PRIMADELI PrimaDeli is treating bread lovers to its new premium sandwich breads (picture) silk bread and raisin silk bread from now until the end of the month. Engaging flavours and smooth texture aside, the breads also contain vitamins and minerals that makes for a great way to
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    • 560 28 AFP Cannes gets set to reward films that poke US in the eye CANNES As the Cannes film festival gets set to hold its closing ceremony on Sunday, a handful of movies taking a sceptical view of the United States have emerged as frontrunners for the
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • IN CINEMAS ROUND-UP
        • 308 29 David Ngiau Yong Shu Chiang DN DN Serene Foo YSC Anger Management: Wimpy Dave (Adam Sandler) is wrongly accused of air rage and is sent to therapy sessions with Dr Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson). Objectively, it's a mess of a film with a flimsy premise. Personally, and very
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        • 270 29 Janice Lee IL DN -DN SF YSC Bringing Down the House: This comedy, starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, dredges up racial stereotypes. To skewer them? Rather, the film plays them up. It can be funny, but it's really a flimsy excuse to crack racist jokes.
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      • 106 29 HERE'S a real treat for all you postcard collectors out there: The complete series of eight Finding Nemo postcards. Yay! You might have seen some of those free Nemo Art Cards (picture) in malls and cafes about town. There are eight Nemo cards in all, featuring oh-so-cute
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    • SHOWFLAT
      • 664 30  -  Jenny Kong Enjoy the spa features and swanky decor at Icon, located in the heart of the CBD by j ennyCSnewsto day. com. sg WHILE the city is abuzz with office workers rushing to work, you treat yourself to a cup of freshly brewed coffee before taking a
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      • 41 30 Where: Anson Road, behind Amara Hotel Average price: $650 psf Tenure: 99 years Amenities: Five-minute walk from Tanjong Pagar MRT and hawker centre, 1 0-minute drive to entertainment enclaves, such as Club Street and Duxton Hill
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      • 623 31 Bargain prices might not mean you are getting more for less. Here's why. IF YOU have been pinching your pennies looking for the cheapest home renovation deal available, chances are, what you pay is what you get. Being prudent about expenditure is one thing, being a miser
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    • INSIDE OUT
      • 445 32  -  Nicholas Chan Accomplish a custom-made look with an off-the-shelf price tag by news@newstoday.com.sg THE very core of family life resides in the home and to separate the home into distinct spaces, it is important to utilise each space independently. First, the right colour should be chosen to evoke
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    • DRIVE
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        507 38  -  Colin Yong More style for this mid-life Mitsubishi after facelift by colin@newstoday.com.sg YOU must have seen the print ads for the latest Mitsubishi Lancer by now the one in which a man ducks into a gym to work out so he can emerge with a body as nice
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      • 163 38 LOCAL Mini distributor Performance Motors has made it easier for buyers to own a Mini by introducing the basic One model (picture). Although the One was launched simultaneously with the more powerful Cooper overseas, only the latter was introduced in Singapore when Mini started selling its
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      • 216 38 Today's motoring tip THE numbers on the walls of car tyres may not make much sense to you, but knowing what they mean will make things easier when the time to change the tyres comes. Tyre sizes are denoted by a string of numbers and letters, such
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    • THE LIGHTER SIDE
      • 269 40 A MADAM opened her brothel door to see a rather slick-looking, well-dressed, middle-aged gentleman standing there. "Can I help you?" the madam asked. "I want to see Natalie," the man replied. "Sir, Natalie is busy right now. Besides, she is one of our most expensive ladies. Perhaps
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    • 133 22 o i i P Sw 3 1 i Scent and the City Introducing Davidoff ECHO the new fragrance for the urban male. ECHO is inspired by the sounds and vibes of our urban environment. The scent is an unprecedented accord, a sheer breath of pure fresh air that gives the
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    • 76 23 For Good Bacteria, Drink Vitagen Vitagen has more than 10 billion probiotic cultures in each bottle. Probiotic cultures are friendly bacteria which help the body to battle harmful bacteria and keep a healthy digestive system. Cultured Milk Drl Vitagen is the only cultured milk drink with prebiotics. Prebiotics are special
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    • 214 41 Reuters MADRID The Spanish title race looks set for a cliff-hanger finale as Real Sociedad, Real Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna battle it out in the last four games. Real Sociedad got its nose in front last week with a hard-earned 1-0
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    • 313 43 AFP ROME AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti believes the Champions League final gives Italian football the perfect opportunity to silence its critics, who rounded on Serie A's finest after a dismal World Cup campaign. Milan plays Juventus in the first ever allItalian
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    • 119 43  -  Stanley Ho SINGAPORE players crashed out of the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris yesterday, after the women's doubles pair of Li Jiawei and Jing Junhong lost 2-4 to their South Korean counterparts Suk Eun Mi and Lee Eun Sil in the third round clash. The
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    • 70 45 Horse Racing His Excellency President S.R. Nathan, President of the Replublic of Singapore, awards Smart Bet's owner Mr. Lim Chong Sam the Orchid Cup Trophy (left picture). President S.R. Nathan also presented a cheque for $202,500 to Mr. Michael Lim, Chairman of the Courage Fund, on
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