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    Lock icon Recovery with a qualifier
    723 1  -  Lee Ching Wern Economy may grow 3-5% next year, jobs may have to wait GOOD news does not travel alone these days. It usually has a sober escort Even as Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that Singapore's gross domestic product could grow by as
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      8 1 TODAY IS SINGAPORE'S 2ND LARGEST CIRCULATING DAILY NEWSPAPER!
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      22 1 NEWSX^/lEWS michael backman The Singapore model must change/2 jungle warfare Temasek-linked companies looking more vulnerable these days/3 andrea pierre Are they outcasts?/30
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Is S'pore being paranoid?
      741 2 News Comment/Michael Backman It has nothing to hide so why not allow real debate? A STRONG-willed patriarch, a management that is sensitive to criticisn and which likes to micro-manage, underlings who will follow and not question, the desire to control and stage-manage everything and a general
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      Lock icon A tearful farewell for Mahathir
      226 2 Agencies NUSA DUA Southeast Asian leaders paid tribute yesterday to one of their most forceful and outspoken colleagues, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who steps down at the end of the month. Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri, host of the Association oi South-east Asian Nations (Asean)
      — Agencies; – AFP Photo  -  226 words
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      Out off the comfort zone
      701 3  -  Val Chua Temasek-linked firms face bigger risks as they expand and Govt reduces support ONCE they were tigers on their home turf protected, safe and unchallenged. Now forced to forage in distant lands as part of their parent's game plan, Temasek-linked companies (TLCs) are looking
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE, ASIA'S LEAST CORRUPT NATION
      223 4 AFP IN ITS annual corruption survey, the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International (Tl) ranked Singapore fifth on the list of the least corrupt countries. Singapore maintained its fifth ranking with a score of 9.4, up from last year's score of 9.3 in the international survey by
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      Asean and its problem child
      411 4  -  Elisia Yeo in Bali Boos over gentle stance on Myanmar but cheers for economic initiatives ASEAN leaders yesterday adopted a bold new vision for the region, but they had little to offer on the region's biggest political issue Myanmar. The leaders signed the all-important Asean
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      Lock icon Killed in the line of fire
      39 4 Bloodstains mark the site where one of three policemen were killed by an Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrilla in a hostage crisis inside the national police headquarters in Manila, the capital. H AFP photo
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Wage reform does not mean wage cuts, says Lim
      212 6 SOME employers still do not understand wage restructuring, said labour chief Lim Boon Heng. While more than 100 companies have successfully restructured their wage systems, some employers seem to think it was just a matter of cutting wages. "It is quite
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      Lock icon New lease on life for a 'rag doll'
      561 6  -  Tan Hui Leng Helping hand for parents of brain-injured kids EVERY DAY, from 9.30 am till her eight-year-old daughter slept at 10pm, Ms Anne Tay (not her real name) would be at her side, reading, teaching her words and mathematics and showing
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      Lock icon Khaw gives Bill Transparency exercise the thumbs up
      193 6 Channel News Asia, Newsradio 93.8 ACTING Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has given the thumbs up to the Bill Transparency exercise. The Ministry of Health initiative unveils discrepancies in bill sizes for subsidised patients across different restructured hospitals on a webpage, which
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      Lock icon More companies opting for health promotion: Survey
      278 6 Channel News Asia MORE companies are conducting health promotion programmes at the workplace now reaching almost twothirds of people working in the private sector. According to the latest Workplace Health Promotion Survey, 45 per cent of companies have such programmes, compared to 33
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      ITE first regional campus to up enrolment
      222 8  -  Derrick A Paulo THE Institute of Technical Education (ITE)'s first regional campus could not have been scheduled for a more appropriate time. With full-time enrolment at the 10 ITE sites at a record high of 17,900, the Simei Avenue campus, which will be
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      GP fined $3,000
      279 8  -  Pamela Pang He failed to diagnose that maid was pregnant A GENERAL practitioner has been censured by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) and ordered to pay $3,000 for failing to diagnose that a maid he examined two years ago was pregnant Dr Chong Ah Lek of the
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      Lock icon Another car park fire destroys 8 vehicles
      174 8 Channel News Asia ANOTHER eight vehicles were destroyed by a fire at a multi-storey car park at Hougang Street 51 in the wee hours of Monday. The suspected arson of six motorcycles, one van and a lorry follows three fires in September that
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      In road tax, size is not all that matters
      162 10  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) WE refer to Mr Roger Poh's letter, "Review road tax structure" (Today, Oct 6). The road tax structure was last reviewed in September 1998 in conjunction with the implementation of the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system. The
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      Stop wasting chilli sauce
      170 10  -  Cherie Sim I DON'T know if this is the effect of the economic downturn, but it seems that more Singaporeans are trying hard to get freebies. It is a common sight these days people filling bowls to the brim with cut chilli or sauce which come
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      It takes courage to follow passion
      156 10  -  Joanne Tay I REFER to the News Comment by Lee Han Shih, "Missing: The vital ingredient" (Today, Oct 7). I am glad Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam's speech only contained one reference to "passion", because I think the word is in danger of becoming a cliche.
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      Get fear out of schools
      412 10  -  Denise Lim Hui Fang Students should be encouraged to question and not be labelled 'trouble-makers' I REFER to the News Comment by Lee Han Shih, "Missing: The vital ingredient" (Today, Oct 7). The Acting Education Minister's speech suggested that changes such as focusing more on
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      Oh, for tranquil surroundings
      86 10  -  Zhang Meng I HAVE found that moving cars in Singapore are really loud but no one complains. The Singapore Government wants to make Singapore a beautiful and comfortable place in which to live, yet does not seem to notice how noise pollution can upset lives. Some
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Telecom rules set for review
      181 12  -  Chan Chao Peh IN the first review of telecom regulation since the liberalisation of the market, the industry regulator has proposed that dominant players such as Sing Tel should sell capacity to other telcos at prices that would make competition here more viable. The Infocomm
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        ST Index: 1,722.1 +4.21
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        Lock icon Singapore
        199 12 -Dow Jones SGX, Bloomberg SINGAPORE shares closed mixed yesterday as broad-based profit-taking eased during the last hour of trading, helping the benchmark index to close higher. Optimistic comments by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on the domestic economy also helped to stabilise market sentiment The ST Index rose
        -Dow Jones; SGX,; Bloomberg  -  199 words
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        SGX most active
        59 12 By volume Thakral GiantWTech Goodpack Goldtron Cosco Inv AlliedTech Chartered AddvalTech SingTel Ipco Close 0.160 0.475 0.825 0.030 0.560 0.470 1.640 0.170 1.800 0.145 Change +0.010 -0.005 +0.040 -0.005 +0.015 +0.030 -0.030 +0.010 -0.010 -0.005 +6.7 -1.0 +5.1 -14.3 +2.8 +6.8 -1.8 +6.3 -0.6 -3.3 'OOO 75,416
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        SGX top rises
        80 12 By$ Close Change By percentage Close Change F&N 11.000 +0.400 CSCW*****7 0.015 +50.0 F&N 100 11.000 +0.400 L&M 0.015 +50.0 GreatEast DBS 11.100 +0.400 14.200 +0.200 Cyber Vill Globa 0.105 +23.5 0.030 +20.0 SPH 20.100 +0.200 Koh Bros W*****6 0.030 +20.0 SingamasC 2kHKS APB Breweries 4.000 +0.175
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        SGX top falls
        85 12 By$ Close OCBC 4.55SNCPS 100 102.300 Change -0.800 By percentage Benefun 20k Close 0.015 Change -25.0 ShangAsia 2kHK$ 6.700 Bukit Sem 13.200 Creative 50 19.100 -0.300 -0.200 -0.200 El-Nets Hiap Hoe ITE 0.015 0.020 0.150 -25.0 -20.0 -16.7 Seaview 9.150 OUE 6.650 -0.200 -0.150 ChipEngSW*****2 GMG USS
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        World markets
        54 12 Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Korea Comp 10,820.33 11,723.92 3,225.40 5,856.68 727.09 Pts +80.19 -10.56 +2.50 +5.48 +3.96 +0.75 -0.09 +0.08 +0.09 +0.55 KLCI 748.55 +5.82 +0.78 SET Index 546.60 +2.24 +0.41 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 615.31 1,312.72 4675.81 -0.57 +7.26
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold us$/oz 376.400 Silver us$/oi 4.870 Platinum us$/oi 717.000 Rubber cents/kg 203 Palm oil RM/tonne 1556 Brent crude us$/borrel 29.24
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        Your S$1 buys
        34 12 UKE 0.3474 Yen 64.371 HK$ 4.4706 RM 2.2041 Euro 0.4953 Rupiah Baht 4862.9 22.980 Peso 31.916 A$ 0.8463 Indian Rs Won 26.356 667.76 C$ 0.7777 Yuan 4.8009 NZ$ 0.9751 NTS 19.611
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      Lock icon 15,000 new subscribers a month
      354 12  -  Chan Chao Peh Star Hub Mobile aims to exceed target, with 33% market share STARHUB Mobile, the smallest mobile operator here, is set to exceed its full-year target of 820,000 subscribers. By the end of last month, the telco already had 800,000 users, a research
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      Lock icon S'pore, S Korea to start trade talks
      86 12 Channel News Asia SINGAPORE and South Korea are set to begin formal negotiations on a free trade agreement after wrapping up joint feasibility studies. The countries released a joint report yesterday urging the freeing up of trade in goods and services and investment
      — Channel News Asia  -  86 words
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      Lock icon JP Morgan to hire more staff in Asia
      144 12 Dow Jones IN a sign that it believes Asian mergers and acquisitions are picking up, JP Morgan Chase Co plans to hire as many as 150 new staff in Asia yearly, a top regional executive at the firm said yesterday. The investment
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      Lock icon S'pore not worried ...
      427 14 S'pore not worried Agencies But we are watching Senai airport plans: Yeo SINGAPORE will be able to withstand rising competition from Malaysia for a slice of the lucrative aviation market, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday. Mr Yeo said Singapore was watching plans by Malaysian tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al
      — Agencies; Alvin Toh  -  427 words
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      Lock icon corporate briefs
      186 14 Newsßadio 93.8 Dow Jones TT International has established a $50-million multi-currency medium-term note programme that allows the consumer electronics distributor to issue debt securities in various currencies, amounts and tenors that may bear fixed, floating or variable rates of interest. DBS is the arranger and dealer of the
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      Lock icon US Airways in union trouble
      248 16 Agencies Mechanics upset with contract to unit of ST Engineering ST Mobile Aerospace Engineering, a unit of Singapore Technologies Engineering, has been contracted by US Airways Group to overhaul 10 aircraft However, the carrier's mechanics' union is seeking a restraining order in the US District
      — Agencies; — Bloomberg photo  -  248 words
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      STE PROFITS UP
      74 16 YESTERDAY, ST Engineering announcecTnet profit in the quarter ended Sept 30 rose to $87.6 million, or three cents per share, from $82.5 million, or 2.9 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue rose 7.8 per cent to $719 million. It also said it
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      Lock icon Keppel subsidiary bags big US defence contract
      124 16 AFP KEPPEL Corp's US subsidiary, Amfels, is poised to secure a defence contract worth US$lOO million ($173 million) to US$l5O million with the US government. "Amfels is in the final stages of negotiations with Boeing," a Keppel spokeswoman said. A report in the
      AFP  -  124 words
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      Lock icon Sony to boost competitiveness
      103 16 AFP TOKYO Japanese electronics giant Sony said yesterday it would cut the number of product parts by 90 per cent to 100,000 by the end of 2005 in a bid to boost cost-competitiveness. Of these 100,000, about 20,000 standard parts, which excel in quality and cost,
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      Lock icon DaimlerChrysler seeks Asean boost with $200m investment
      207 18 -AFP NUSA DUA (Indonesia) German-US auto giant DaimlerChrysler will invest up to 100 million euros ($200.4 million) in South-east Asia over the next two years to strengthen its presence and triple sales in 10 years, a top official said. With a market of
      -AFP; — Bloomberg photo  -  207 words
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      Lock icon Motorola plans year's top IPO
      247 18 Bloomberg Proposed share sale of its chip unit to raise more than $4.3b MOTOROLA Inc's planned initial public offering (IPO) of its semiconductor unit may raise more than US$2.5 billion ($4.3 billion), making it the biggest IPO in more than a year. The Texas-based chipmaking
      — Bloomberg  -  247 words
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      Lock icon China mulls peg policy move: PM Wen
      143 18 Bloomberg CHINA will change its policy "in the course of further financial reforms" and any move from the system of a peg to the dollar will be "appropriate" to its economic development, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday. China's economy grew 8.2 per cent
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      Lock icon Japan's forex reserves hit $1t record
      119 18 -AFP TOKYO Japan's foreign exchange reserves rose to a record U*****.88 billion ($1.04 trillion) last month, boosted by Tokyo's US dollar-buying interventions in a bid to drive down the yen, the government said yesterday. The September reserves were up U5549.79 billion from August, the
      -AFP  -  119 words
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      Lock icon Bright outlook for Japan's recovery
      99 18 -AFP TOKYO Japan's forward-looking index of economic activity stood at 55.6 points in August, suggesting that the outlook for Japan's recovery is positive, the Cabinet Office said yesterday. With the latest data, the leading index has stayed above the 50-point mark, regarded as the dividing
      -AFP  -  99 words
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      Lock icon Minimal impact
      432 20  -  Val Chua Malaysia's relaxed listing rules unlikely to affect Spore market THE move last month by Malaysian securities regulators to relax its IPO rules to attract more foreign listings has raised the eyebrows of some industry players here. While some are concerned that the rules may divert some
      — Bloomberg photo  -  432 words
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      Lock icon Rising debt may affect SingPower's ratings: S&P
      165 20 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Power's long-term debt ratings may be lowered by Standard Poor's (S&P) because of concern about the power utility's rising debt, the ratings company said. "The rating action has been triggered by several media reports indicating that the Sing Power group is
      — Bloomberg  -  165 words
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Gaddafi disowns Arabs
      234 22 -AFP TRIPOLI Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, once a devoted and energetic champion of Arab unity, announced this weekend his definitive separation from the Arabs, whom he criticised heavily. Standing before a group of women, in a Mediterranean villa in Syrte about 500 km east of Tripoli, Mr
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      Lock icon Grief turns violent
      54 22 AFP photo Smoke billows from a cinema in Islamabad, after angry mobs rampaged through the Pakistani capital following the funeral of slain Sunni militant politician, Mr Azam Tariq. Hundreds of emotionally-charged mourners rampaged through the city, setting fire to a mosque of the rival Shiite community, a
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      Interrogations were sabotaged
      308 22 680 Al Qaeda prisoners may be re-interviewed WASHINGTON The harm done by Arab language interpreters at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be more serious than initially thought if the suspicions of officials are proven true. Arab language interpreters, now under scrutiny, may have
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      Blair not welcome at memorial
      163 22 LONDON A father whose son was killed in Iraq has demanded that British Prime Minister Tony Blair stays away from a national memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Gordon Evans said Mr Blair should not have sent
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      Lock icon Koizumi hopes for poll boost from Bush visit
      244 24 Reuters TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will be betting that coverage of him chatting with close ally US President George W Bush next week will boost his popularity ahead of an expected November election. The coverage, however, just might backfire. With
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      Houston, nve have a bug
      273 24 Lovesick hacker's vengeance hits port's computer system LONDON What was an act of a lovelorn teenager to avenge the pride of his love interest, almost cost the "life and limb" of the busiest port in the United States, The Times reported yesterday. The Southwark Crown
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        Lock icon Prove charges, Cuba tells US
        54 24 Reuters Cuba called on the US to provide evidence to back charges that it has a germ-warfare programme. The Bush administration, which has yet to find evidence to back its charge that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, last week charged that Cuba has a
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        Lock icon Keep weddings simple, says Viet PM
        77 24 AFP The days of flamboyant weddings among Vietnam's elite may be numbered after prospective newly-weds were ordered to tone down celebrations or face punishment. Prime Minister Phan Van Khai last week sent an official letter to all ministries and government bodies to step up
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      Lock icon Kim's wife is 'critical after car accident'
      154 24 Reuters TOKYO North Korean leader Kirn Jong-il's wife suffered head injuries in a car accident last month and is in critical condition, the Japanese Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported yesterday. It quoted a "Korean Peninsula source" for the report about 50-year-old Ko Yong-hi. It
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      Lock icon 'Eden' man faces charges
      99 24 AFP NEW YORK Police will file criminal charges against 37-year-old Antoine Yates, who was mauled by a 180-kg Siberian tiger he kept in his "Garden of Eden" apartment along with a metre-long alligator. Mr Yates was recovering under police custody in a Philadelphia hospital after being
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A right-wing wacko? Bush is ultra liberal
      937 26  -  Andrew Ferguson Unthinking contempt may be affecting way opponents judge US leader FORMER Vermont Governor Howard Dean may not be the frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination yet but there's no denying that he thrills Democratic audiences with his rhetorical criticism of the
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon The long and winding road
      79 30 From left: Andrea De Cruz and Pierre Png in happier days at the movie premiere of What Women Want; after her life-saving liver operation; on the first day of the Slim 7 0 trial (she sued the pill's importer, distributor and colleague Rayson Tan); Andrea
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      Lock icon Please, give me a break
      798 30  -  Elisa Chia a worn out Andrea De Cruz pleads with journalist Elisa Chia in an exclusive interview SO, WAS it all worth it? Sixteen months after she filed a lawsuit against Slim 10's importer, its distributor and fellow MediaCorp artiste Rayson Tan, who introduced her
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    • PORN STAR, BRICKLAYER
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        GAY PORN CAMEO ...
        112 32 GAY PORN CAMEO In the 1970s the then Mr Universe landed a role, albeit unwittingly, in a gay porn movie, his first love Barbara Outland Baker, 55, told Reuters. "This fellow Kent asked 'Arnold's permission to use some footage of him for a movie, a documentary. So Arnold, trusting enough,
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        ARNIE AND ADOLF?
        98 32 1 he tumultuous campaign unearthed a 1975 Schwarzenegger quote admiring German dictator Adolf Hitler. "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power," George Butler, a close friend and documentary filmmaker, quoted the actor as
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        WIFE SAID DON'T RUN ...
        110 32 WIFE SAID DON'T RUN His wife, television news personality Maria Shriver, did not want Schwarzenegger to run for governor. As niece of President John F Kennedy and daughter of 1972 vicepresidential candidate Sargent Shriver, she had a foretaste of politics. "I was very aware of what a campaign entailed, which
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        CONAN THE BRICKLAYER
        136 32 Campaign ads on Spanish-lan-guage radio portray the former Mr Universe as a common labourer when he first came to the United States in 1968. "He started as a bricklayer, and through sheer determination and hard work, he achieved the goals he set for himself, first in bodybuilding,
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        WANDERING HANDS ...
        111 32 WANDERING HANDS Stories about Schwarzenegger's past behaviour were re-ignited when a 1977 interview, in which he discussed participating in group sex, resurfaced. In response, he first said he had a wild past, and then that he could not remember it. Later, he said he made up such stories to promote
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        Lock icon WANDERING OFF THE BASE
        80 32 Reuters Schwarzenegger abandoned his Austrian army post in 1965 to attend a bodybuilding tournament He won the contest, but said in his 1977 memoir that the subsequent punishment was worth it "I sat in jail for seven days with only a blanket on a cold stone
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      Skeptical? Read what some Danish and Asian women say...
      304 33 "It has a calming effect. My acne healed faster and my skin isn't dry anymore. It's the best thing I have used." Maria Kaaber Maria Kaaber, 41, has been using BM Cream for eight years. "I have sensitive skin and suffered
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      Keeping Wrinkles At Bay...
      347 33 The quest for youthful looking skin has never been more evident! For years, women have been looking for the proverbial fountain of youth to help keep their skin looking as young as they feel. The search for the next anti-wrinkle miracle cream is relentless. Well, a
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      The Little Magic Molecule
      180 33 Sodium Sucrose-Octasulphate (SOS) Dubbed "the little magic molecule" by scientists, sucrose sulphate is a pure, synthetic, small sugar-like molecule that can rejuvenate and stimulate cell growth. It is the only molecule in a group of compounds that, when applied topically to the skin, is small enough
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      Lock icon DJ Tiesto to judge Found@Thirst
      342 34 Janice Lee SINGAPORE has finally managed to entice superstar deejay and Dutch trancemeister, DJ Tiesto, to its shores. Having received, but rejected, many invitations from clubs in Singapore, Tiesto will grace Zouk next Wednesday. Together with the club crowd, Tiesto will judge a deejay talent
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      Lock icon Chilling lessons
      545 34  -  Felix Cheong from the living dead A PAIR of rotting hands. Eyes popping from sockets. Flesh unfolding like drapes. Just when you thought it's safe to sleep with the windows open and the lights off, the living dead prowl your dreams again. Yes, the zombie flick is back
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  • IN CINEMAS
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      The changing of the guard
      448 36  -  Serene Foo and Elisa Chia 15-year veteran Chen Shucheng makes way for Wang Xiangqin on PSC Nite 2003 ASK around about TV variety show series such as PSC Nite or Weekend Delight, and most will mention compere Chen Shucheng's name. A veteran in the business,
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      A five-hour long Short Story
      357 36  -  Yong Shu Chiang LOCAL TV director Lee Thean-Jeen has a bone to pick with US President George W Bush. His series, The Singapore Short Story Project, had been enjoying decent ratings during its February to March run on MediaCorp TV 12's Arts Central. That is
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      Lock icon School is popular
      334 38 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES Paramount's The School of Rock went to the head of the class on its debut at the box office this weekend as the Jack Black comedy struck a chord with moviegoers and raked in US$2O.2 million ($34.8 million). MGM's Out of Time was
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Oakland dumped again as Boston rallies
      349 48 Reuters Major League Baseball Athletics 3 Red Sox 4 Yankees up next for Boston OAKLAND Manny Ramirez hit a three-run homer to lead the Boston Red Sox to a thrilling 4-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Monday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Boston's dramatic
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      Lock icon HE'S STILL THE MAN
      591 48 Reuters No Majors, but Woods continues to set the standard LONDON Pretty damn good. Impressive, if a little below par. Largely in a slump when it really counted. Take your pick. These are the three likely answers you would get from Joe Player, Joe Public or
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      Lock icon Incredible Indianapolis pulls off near-miracle win
      244 48 -AFP TAMPA Tony Dungy's 48th birthday had a little bit of everything. It ended with an improbable victory in his former home. After rallying from a 21-point deficit against the National Football League's best defence with less than four minutes remaining, the Indianapolis Colts
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      Lock icon This is Spencer's moment
      391 50 AFP All Black flyhalf must live up to his huge billing by leading the offence Rugby World Cup Spencer the attacking fulcrum AUCKLAND All Blacks flyhalf Carlos Spencer is determined to exorcise the ghost of his 1999 nightmare by leading New Zealand to glory at the
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      Lock icon Villeneuve bows out of Formula 1, maybe for good
      324 50 Reuters TOKYO Japanese driver Takuma Sato was unveiled yesterday as BAR's replacement for former world champion Jacques Villeneuve for the 2004 Formula 1 season. "There comes a time in all relationships where you have to move on. That is the simple
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      Lock icon South Africa increases security after Pakistan killing
      287 50 AFP FAISALABAD, Pakistan Already-high security around South Africa's cricketers was further boosted yesterday after the assassination of a religious leader prompted violent riots, with fears the visitors could be targeted, officials said. The Proteas, already swamped by presidential-style security, were given extra squads
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      Lock icon A gulf in standards
      333 52  -  Stanley Ho Saudis ease through to final qualifying round for Olympics THE result was expected, especially after the Young Lions were humiliated 7-0 in the first leg in Riyadh last week. But while the 3-0 win for Saudi Arabia's under-23 side over its Singapore counterpart last
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      It's a girl
      45 52 HAMBURG Married tennis legends Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi had their second child on Friday. Graf gave birth to a healthy girl named Jaz, a spokesman said, although the child was expected in midNovember. The couple has a two-year-old son Jaden Gil.
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      Unfit Kobe
      58 52 HONOLULU Kobe Bryant might miss the Los Angeles Lakers first two pre-season games against the Golden State Warriors this week as he recovers from knee surgery. Bryant has been accused of rape by a teenage hotel employee in Colorado. Coach Phil Jackson said on Monday that the embattled
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      Booze insult
      50 52 AHMEDABAD New Zealand cricket captain Stephen Fleming was accused yesterday of insulting the memory of Mahatma Gandhi after he was photographed for a liquor advertisement in the independence leader's dry home state of Gujarat. A bewildered Fleming apologised for the photoshoot, carried out in the town of Rajkot
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      Fit Azman's eyeing SEA Games gold
      533 52  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THREE months ago, he announced his comeback after a seven-year hiatus from bodybuilding. Azman Abdullah apologised to Singapore Bodybuilders' Federation (SBBF) president Paul Chua for falsely accusing the latter of wrongdoing which saw the athlete banned for four years by the IBBF
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      Lock icon Rio dropped
      486 54 United defender pays for 'forgetting' drugs test LONDON England dropped Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand yesterday for Saturday's crucial Euro 2004 qualifier against Turkey because he failed to take a drugs test. And despite an ankle injury, Liverpool striker Michael Owen has made the squad for the match
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      Lock icon Former England skipper Robson becomes new Nigeria coach
      266 54 Agencies ABUJA Former Manchester United and England skipper Bryan Robson has been named Nigeria coach for next January's African Nations Cup in Tunisia by the Nigeria Football Association (NFA). "Bryan Robson will be Nigeria's coach," a member of the NFA said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Takeover speculation increases as Irishmen increase stake in United
      352 54 LONDON Irish racehorse owners JP McManus and John Magnier now own almost a quarter of Manchester United's shares after buying Bskyß's stake in the club, reported the Guardian yesterday. The move has prompted unease amongst the club's fans, who fear McManus
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