Today, 21 June 2003

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    8 1 TODAY June 21 22 2003 MITA (P) 009/03/2003
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    AIRLINE SURPRISE
    481 1  -  by Jose Raymond j ose@newstoday.com. sg WHILE the market is still digesting the news that Singapore Airlines could enter the budget airline business, this newspaper has learnt that another local player may join the fray. The company is called ValuAir. It was registered as a limited private company
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    Lock icon Rush, jitters, titters and a brand new line
    645 1  -  Chan Chao Peh chaopeh@newstoday.com.sj by AFTER all that talk of glitches and delays and rumbles about high fares and missing stations, the top brass behind the North-East Line waited nervously for the first driverless train to roll away from Dhoby Ghaut station.
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon 18 children killed by mosquito-borne virus in southern China
      260 2 -AFP BEIJING Eighteen children have been killed by an outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus, which attacks the brain and spinal cord, that has infected 211 people in south China, health officials said on Friday. "The spread of the disease is provincewide,"
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      Lock icon A touch of blue, a matter of choice
      861 2 Interview/By Ng Boon Yian NewWP chief Sylvia Lim on what it takes to win an election or convince someone to vote for you JUST back from climbing Mount Kinabalu and white water rafting down Padas River, Ms Sylvia Lim (picture) from the
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      Lock icon Outrage over Suu Kyi's cell conditions
      319 3 -AFP BANGKOK Revelations that Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being held at Yangon's notorious Insein jail without even a change of clothes since she was detained three weeks ago sparked outrage on Friday among diplomats and activists. Britain's Junior Foreign Minister
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      RSS Courageous'officers charged
      188 3  - RSS Courageous' officers charged -Joy Frances TWO Navy officers were charged in court on Friday in relation to the collision between the anti-submarine patrol vessel RSS Courageous and container ship ANL Indonesia in January that killed four women officers. Lieutenant Chua Chue Teng, 23, and her superior officer, Lieutenant Ng
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      Lock icon Sack for torture
      106 3 AFP BEIJING Chinese judges have been warned they will lose their jobs or be prosecuted if they try to extract confessions with torture, the China Daily reported on Friday. Torture is widely used in Chinese courts, as a defendant could usually not be found guilty unless he
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      Lock icon NZ fart tax stinks
      98 3 AFP AUCKLAND A tax on farting, belching livestock to be introduced in New Zealand to help combat global warming is creating a stink among the country's farmers. Methane emissions created by grassmunching cows, sheep, deer and goats are believed to account for about half of New
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      Lock icon This COO restocks tomatoes at Cold Storage
      271 4  -  Grace Tay SOME office workers plan their leave so they can cover for one another. Those at Dairy Farm plan their Buddy Shop days as well. All employees from the group's headquarters from administrative staff to senior management are assigned a retail outlet
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      When kids go wrong
      757 4  -  Joy Frances Man who sees the darker side of our children explains why by joy@newstoday.com.sg WHEN this reporter arrived at Dr Joseph Ozawa's (picture) office to interview him, he said: "Give me a moment, I have a very disturbing case to deal with first." Returning half
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      Lock icon Consortium to battle dengue
      182 4 Newsradio 93.8 AFTER working together against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), scientists are turning their attention towards fighting dengue. Sing Health, the National Healthcare Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratories, the Singapore Genome Institute, pharmaceutical company Novartis and the National Environment Agency (NEA) have formed the Singapore
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  • LETTERS
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      Please don't stop bus services
      128 6  -  Nor Azam Ahmad I CONCUR with Mr Lim Boon Hee's comments regarding the driverless rail system ("Bad move, NEL", Today, June 19). The driverless system has proven to be a greater challenge for operators compared to the traditionally manned ones. If the system is not
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      Buangkok letdown
      485 6  -  Taferina Chua Pair Shen SBS urged to reconsider decision not to open MRT station I REFER to the opening of the Northeast Line (NEL) by SBS Transit, and would like to appeal against its decision not to open the Buangkok MRT station. My husband and I collected the
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  • HUMOUR
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      Look out for the idiot
      529 7  -  During the Great Singapore Sale by Neil Humphreys neil@newstoday.com.sg ranks just below cutting my toenails. Being an ang moh makes it worse I might as well have "gullible tourist with big bank account" stamped on my forehead. In Far East Plaza, there are only so
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  • SAWYINVESTOR/ CO-ORDINATED BY VAL CHUA
    • MARKET WATCH
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        God buy, or goodbye?
        512 8  -  Chew Sutat by news@newstoday.com.sg A ROUND of profit-taking hit the STI early in the week, only for the bulls to charge back following triple digit gains on the Dow Jones Index and new highs for the Nasdaq mid-week. Rising in sympathy, the STI finally broke the
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      Will the Asian Tigers roar again?
      344 8  -  Val Chua THE Asian Tigers the term used to describe the unstoppable economic growth of Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan in the 90s are making a comeback. Through an index, that is. Index provider Dow Jones Indexes (DJI) is banking that these
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      DRUG BOOSTER
      603 8  -  Teo Hwee Khee The biotech sector is seeing a revival, thanks to a recent US Bill. How are biotech funds faring in Singapore? INVESTING in biotech stocks may not be for everyone. High start-up costs, the uncertainty of having drugs approved, the efficacy of drugs during the clinical
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon SIA to take one-off $12.2 m charge after job cuts
      231 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines, facing its first quarterly loss, said late on Thursday it would take a one-off charge of $12.2 million in its April-to-june quarter against 414 job cuts. Asia's largest carrier by market value said the job cuts, the
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    • Market Watch
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        STI Intra-day Chart
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        Commodities
        21 10 Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oi 359.49 4.57 670 Brent crude us$/barrel Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne 26.56 178 1452
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        World markets
        55 10 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 9120.39 9.88 0.11 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd 9930.31 3055.20 5002.58 -49.80 -15.70 -46.33 -0.50 -0.51 -0.92 Korea Comp SET Index Jakarta Comp 682.44 452.66 511.45 0.75 -1.53 1.62 0.11 -0.34 0.32 Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai 1240.68 220.51 3499.50 -11.13
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 us$ 0.5769 UK£ 0.3449 Yen 68.22 HK$ 4.4991 RM 2.19 Euro 0.4944 Rupiah Baht 4745.02 23.99 Peso 30.79 A$ 0.8599 Indian Rs 26.85 Won C$ 686.69 0.7764 Yuan NZ$ 4.77 0.9845 NTS 19.95
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        Lock icon Singapore
        93 10 Reuters SINGAPORE shares edged lower on Friday as investors pocketed gains in select blue chips after shares surged to 10-month highs the previous day. The STI closed down 0.13 per cent, or 1.99 points, at 1,519.16. It closed at 1,521.15 on Thursday, revisiting that level for the first time
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        SGX top rises
        78 10 By$ June 20 Close Change SPH100 19.800 +0.400 Ch0DBeCW*****61 USS107.400+0.300 Venture 16.800 +0.300 SPH 19.700 +0.200 SingamasC 2kHKS 3.150 +0.150 KepCorp 4.940 +0.120 Sinomem 0.745 +0.120 DBS Bk 6% NCPS*****.500 +0.100 GreatEast 10.500 +0.100 UOB 13.200 +0.100 By percentage June 20 Close Change CSCW*****7 0.010 +100.0 El-Nets
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        SGX top falls
        79 10 By$ June 20 Close Change SIA 10.800 -0.300 Robinson 6.550 -0.200 SIA 200 10.900 -0.200 Shang Asia 2kHKS 5.000 -0.150 JMH400USS 6.300 -0.050 Prima 6.000 -0.050 Seaview 6.400 -0.050 AURIC 1.060 -0.040 C&C 4.920 -0.040 CITYDEV 4.740 -0.040 By percentage June 20 Close Change L&M 0.015 -25.0
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        SGX most active
        53 10 By volume June 20 Close Full Apex 0.435 Sinomem 0.745 Inno-Pac MultiVis DatacrftUSS 0.045 0.300 0.995 Chartered 0.965 Citiraya UniFiber Goldtron DMXTech 0.625 0.135 0.030 0.270 Change '000 +0.120 -0.005 +0.035 +0.030 +0.030 +0.010 +19.2 -10.0 +13.2 +3.1 +5.0 +3.8 102,103 88,190 44,365 39,924 36,682 28,953 28,449
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      Unit trusts: Think long term
      674 12  -  Lee Yew Meng by yewmeng@newstoday.com.se INVESTORS in unit trusts should not adopt the IPO approach to build their nest eggs. In an IPO or initial public offering, a stag subscribes to the new shares with the hope of making a quick kill. It is a
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      Sing Tel cancels C2C loan
      222 12  -  Chan Chao Peh TWO months after Sing Tel wrote down the value of its 59.5 per cent-owned submarine cable operator C2C, it has decided to distance itself further from the subsidiary by cutting its purse strings. Sing Tel announced on Friday that it has decided
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      Lock icon Corporate Briefs
      74 12 Bloomberg Xl Ventures, the venture capital arm of Keppel Corp, said its subsidiary bought a 20 per cent stake in US childhood education company Knowledge Universe Learning Corp for U5529.6 million ($51.2 million) in cash. Kl's unit, Focus Up Holdings, also acquired 20 per cent of a US$25
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      Lock icon Singapore Hong Kong Properties Investment
      127 12 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia said it is negotiating with creditors to restructure its HK$l4l million ($31.3 million) in debt. Its creditors include Bank of China and Bank of Communications. The company expects to complete the restructuring within this year before launching a capital injection exercise through the
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      207 14 AFX-Asia AFX-Asia French bank SOCIETE GENERALE said on Friday that it will close its Singapore equity operation, SG Securities (Singapore) Pte Ltd, and give up its seat on the city state's stock exchange. It will maintain corporate and investment banking, asset management and private banking activities in Singapore.
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      Lock icon Full Apex eyes Coke, Pepsi to fill quotas
      181 14 AFX-Asia CHINA-BASED Full Apex (Holdings) Ltd said that it will leverage its relationships with Coca-Cola and Pepsi to get new customers. Full Apex supplies polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles to CocaCola and Pepsi in China. "Since these are good brand names, it will
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2627 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, FnniiiriGC-fnll B^9 9Q73 AAflfl periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compile* tIH|UineS.UIII 03Z/V/ J"Ot)UU fions is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomp
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  • WORLD
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      One solid meal a day
      816 16  -  Jaime Koh by j aim e@newsto day. com. sg HOW often do you meet a leader of a nation who admits willingly to the failings and inadequacies of his country and has what in the eyes of many, are modest aspirations? Dr Jose Ramos-Horta, Senior
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      Lock icon Women in China face Aids risk from bisexual husbands
      224 16 -AFP PARIS Women in China risk catching HIV, the virus that causes Aids, from bisexual husbands, according to a study published in the British medical journal, The Lancet. The threat has been overlooked in the effort to tackle China's Aids problem,
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon GIRL WEDS DOG:
        40 16 Reuters A nine-year-old Indian girl was married to a dog amid religious chants after a priest told her parents the wedding would ward off evil. The marriage took place in Khannan village, about 60km northwest of Calcutta.
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        Lock icon POT AND MATH DON'T
        63 16 Reuters MIX: A study by the Rand group has found that high school students in California who smoke mariuana are likely to attain ower mathematics scores, and ultimately, lower wages, than their peers. Poets and literary types have less to fear, however, as results showed no
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        Lock icon WOMAN CAN GO, KIDS MUST STAY:
        66 16 AFP /■Al I American woman barricaded in the US consulate in Jeddah will leave Saudi Arabia, but must leave her children behind. Ms Sarah Saga, 24, spent the weekend in the consulate with her children, aged three and five, after her husband refused to
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        Lock icon SENTENCED FOR THREATENING MOSQUES:
        76 16 Agencies A man who threatened to fly a Qantas jet into a mosque in revenge against the Sept 1 1 terrorist attacks escaped a jail sentence but was ordered by a Brisbane court to perform 180 hours of community service. Meanwhile, a doctor was sentenced in
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        Lock icon LAWYER SLEPT, MAN ESCAPES DEATH:
        60 16 Reuters A lexas man whose death sentence was overturned because his lawyer slept through parts of his trial agreed to a plea bargain on Thursday that will Keep him off death row, but behind bars for life. During a 1984 trial, Calvin Burdine, 50, was
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Jaw-jaw diplomacy
      993 18  -  Deep X Datta-Ray by weekend@newstoday.com.sg IN REFERRING to what she saw as the machinations of the United States and its propensity to interfere in the affairs of other sovereign states, the late Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, used the euphemism "the foreign hand". Today the euphemism is no
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      Lock icon Mind your lingo
      481 19  -  Dave Barry Pretentious menus and the meaning of'synergy' by weekend@newstoday.com.sg IT IS time once again for Ask Mister Language Person, the column that provides you with the grammar, punctuation and vocabulary skills you need to verbally crush your opponents like seedless grapes under a hammer. Today's first
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  • WATZUP? weekend
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      Lock icon Who'll rescue you?
      857 20  -  Teng Qian Xi by qianxi@newstoday.com.sg EVERY little girl is fed fairytales that end with the prince and princess living happily ever after. Well, royalty does not only exist in fiction and if girls and women today have a target for their princess fantasies, it is likely to
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      5566 says goodbye for the year
      149 21  -  Elisa Chia IT SEEMS that boy band 5566's performance on Saturday may well be its last in Singapore for the year. The members were keen to attend the Singapore Hit Awards in September, but a problem with the event's tabulation process has ruled out
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      Money go Americano
      315 21  -  Janice Lee Local flick to be adapted by janice@newstoday.com.sg MONEY No Enough is going American. Local movie-maker JP Tan, who was responsible for the Jack Neo vehicle, Money No Enough, has teamed up with American movie financier Joe Singh to produce the same movie with an American
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      Aniston is Forbes' new top celebrity
      244 22 NEW YORK Pop princess Britney Spears learnt on Thursday that fame can be fleeting. She disappeared from this year's Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List after taking the No 1 spot last year. Replacing her at the top is Jennifer Aniston (picture), one of TV's
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      The unassuming pop princess
      374 22  -  Jeanine Tan CHINESE pop princess Jolin Tsai (picture) looked like royalty in her flowing silky dress when she attended Thursday's press conference. While she has been a staple on the fickle Chinese music scene for about four years, she is far from developing the persona of
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      Lock icon Flights of life
      419 24  -  Yong Shu Chiang Loosen up and be enlightened by shuchiang@newsto day. com. sg WHERE do you want to go today? A global software company had used this slogan several years ago and had wanted to put across its idea of travelling without moving, using computers. Theatre Works'
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      Be the next Ronaldo
      119 24  -  Teng Qian Xi BRAZILIAN football (picture) is getting bigger... but indoors. And now, it's growing in Singapore. In the coming weekends, Lego Singapore will hold indoor football workshops Futebol de Salao at the Raffles City atrium. Invented by the Brazilians, it aims to give players greater
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    • HEALTH
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        Lock icon Fight Singapore's No 1 cancer
        665 26  -  Lynette Leong Early detection and a healthy, fibre-rich diet can prevent colorectal cancer by news@newstoday.com.sg DO you know that the No 1 cancer in Singapore for males and females combined is not breast cancer or lung cancer? It is a silent killer called colorectal cancer.
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        PREVENTING COLOREGTAL CANCER
        66 26 Eat and live healthily. Consume more fresh fruits and vegetables and fibre and less animal fats. Exercise and avoid smoking. Go for screening, especially if you belong to a high-risk group. See a doctor if you develop symptoms like bleeding or abdominal discomfort. If the symptoms persist,
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    • EPICURE
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        Allergic to wine?
        349 28  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatout@newsto day. com. sg IF you have a scratchy throat or sinus problems after sipping wine, you might be a victim of wine allergy. Although wine allergies are well-documented by medical journals and web resources, few people are aware of these allergies. The culprit
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        From bridal photos to vegetarian food
        426 28  -  Sophie Pritchard and George Jacobs Inspired to go vegetarian by a dream of her late father by WHERE FoYuan Vegetarian Restaurant 5 Craig Road Tanjong Pagar PHONE 9370-4237 or 9677-4485 OPENING HOURS 8:00am-7:30pm Monday to Saturday eatout@newstoday.com.sg It's always fascinating to hear people's stories
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    • EAT OUT
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        Mamma mia! Learn to cook ala Italia
        308 29  -  Katrina Karim IN CONJUNCTION with I this year's Italian Festival, jointly organised by the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade in Rome and the Italian Trade Commission in Singapore, food enthusiasts can look forward to attending cooking classes conducted by ItaNan gourmet chef instructor
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        Chefs with altitude
        476 29  -  Katrina Karim Heady delights at the top of Swissotel The Stamford WHERE The Equinox Complex Swissotel The Stamford 2 Stamford Road Level 70 PHONE 6431 6156 OPENING HOURS Joan 12noon to 2:3opm 7pm to 10pm closed for lunch on Saturdays and Sundays Equinox The Restaurant 12noon to
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    • lIN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Round-up
        691 30  -  David Ngiau Derrick A Paulo Yong Shu Chiang Elisa Chia DN DN YSC DN -DN JL JL YSC YSC -SF DN DN JL IN CINEMAS Recommended: Far from Heaven.Jbe heavenly life of Cathy and FrankWhitaker (Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid), in upper-crust 1950s Connecticut, falls apart when Frank is
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        Cinematic Heaven
        534 32  -  David Ngiau Melodrama-homage Far from Heaven is as palatable as it is poignant by david@newstoday.com.sg Far from Heaven FILM REVIEW The over-stylisation here is not just a conceit but serves to underline the importance its characters place on appearance and seeming like it or not, the movies have
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        188 46 BMW has released the first photographs of its new X 3 (picture), a compact "sport activity vehicle" that follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally-successful X 5. Based on the 3 Series, the X 3 looks fairly avant garde, while retaining
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      717 50 -AFP American youngster looking to take over from Sampras and Agassi at SWIO Tennis Wimbledon US star in hot form LONDON If Andy Roddick has his way over the coming fortnight, there is about to be a changing of the guard in London. Not at Buckingham Palace,
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      344 50 AFP LONDON They've turned the decibel level up and nowadays they even earn more than the men. Women's tennis is on the march heading for the hallowed lawns of Wimbledon. What's more, it's no longer just power which is the name
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      314 50 Reuters MELBOURNE Australia captain George Gregan defended England's tactics on Friday, saying it is the most expansive team in world rugby. The Wallabies have lost their last three matches to England in London, but have never lost at home, a record they are keen to
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      351 51 Reuters Boxing World heavyweight championships Lennox Lewis v Vitali Klitschko LOS ANGELES Lennox Lewis tipped the scales for his world heavyweight title defence against Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko at a beefy 116.34 kg on Thursday, the heaviest the Briton has ever weighed
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      400 52  -  Tan Wee Boon HE WAS the strike partner of current South Korea soccer star Ahn Jung Hwan in the country's under-21 team. While Ahn caught the world's attention with a sterling performance in co-host South Korea's success at last year's
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      480 53 AFP Embattled Brazil and US meet in must-win clash Confederations Cup Brazil v USA A loss means curtains for either team LYON World Cup winner Brazil and the United States square up against each other here Saturday (Sunday morning, Singapore time) with one goal in mind to
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      369 53  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg IT COULD not have been a worse debut for a player. Tampines Rovers' new signing Bradley Groves had a nightmarish start to his NTUC Income SLeague stint on Friday when he scored an own goal in the Stags' 2-1 loss
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      507 55  -  Stanley Ho But S-League club chairman gives him a second chance despite the crime by stanley@newstoday.com.sg HE was tasked with banking in whatever proceeds the S-League club received from its Singapore Pools betting outlet. But his club had failed to pay
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      285 55 AFP ROME Fallen giant Napoli, which narrowly escaped relegation from the second division last season, promised its fans on Friday it would sign an Italian player currently playing in the English Premiership. "The fans of Napoli will have a present from England," Salvatore Naldi told
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