Today, 16 December 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Twist in the noose
      727 1  -  Ehsia Yeo Row over possible death penalty for Saddam by elisia@newstoday.com.sg SADDAM HUSSEIN may be facing the most extraordinary war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg at the end of World War 11, but a major international controversy has already broken out World leaders simply cannot agree if
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      Lock icon Controversial Italian media Bill vetoed
      177 1 Reuters ROME Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi yesterday rejected a controversial media Bill that critics say was tailormade for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's media empire. Mr Ciampi said in a statement he was sending the Bill back to Parliament for further work. Critics said it
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      Lock icon Stocks rise, then fall
      91 1 Reuters NEW YORK Stocks sagged yesterday, with technology stocks leading the market's retreat, after a temporary burst of buying spurred by the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein evaporated. The Dow, which spent most the day in positive territory, fell 19 points, or 0.2 per
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Canadian now faces 22 murder charges
      163 2 Reuters NEW WESTMINSTER (British Columbia) Seven new murder charges will be filed against Robert Pickton, the pig farmer feared linked to the disappearance of more than 50 Vancouver area prostitutes over the past decade, prosecutors said yesterday. The charges bring to 22 the number
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      Lock icon Activist found dead
      139 2 Reuters SAO PAULO A British Greenpeace activist on a mission against illegal logging in the Amazon delta was found dead yesterday by a river bank near Capim Island in Brazil's Para state, a local official said. Ms Emily Craddock, 27, of London, had been missing since Friday.
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      Conjoined twins doctor off to HK
      459 2  -  Teo Hwee Nak Offer from university hospital too good to pass up by hweenak@newstoday.com.sg NEUROSURGEON Keith Goh served out his last day with Raffles Hospital yesterday, which also happened to be his 42nd birthday. hm afwapgtam. The surgedTi, who helped put Singapore on the
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      Lock icon HEART OF THE MATTER
      698 3  -  Lee Ching Wern At Goldheart Jewelry, a listening ear and product knowledge are good as gold by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg TO MS Bonnie Ler, the key to service excellence can be summed up in four words Straight from the Heart. Simple as it is, this phrase is the
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      The bigwigs in Beijing
      1027 4 News Comment/ Karevi Raslan It's time to tap into the exclusive networks that have shaped the careers of China's movers and shakers CHINA has become a vital part of South-east Asia's economic and political future. The country's 1.2 billion people are currently powering much of the
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      Pilot's calculation error caused accident
      485 6  -  Joy Frances 3 SIA pilots blamed for tail hitting the runway on take-off by joy@newstoday.com.sg THREE Singapore Airlines pilots have been blamed for an accident in March this year in New Zealand where the tail of a 8747-400 aircraft struck the runway and dragged along
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      Lock icon M'sian soldiers wreck village
      130 6 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Armed with chains, helmets and sticks, 60 Malaysian soldiers descended on a village and wreaked havoc. The 15-minute rampage in the village in southern Malacca state was believed to have been triggered by a fight between a soldier and a local villager, the
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      5 3 In novation Singapore Redefining Service
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      122 3 f EXCELLENT pCERVICE INWARD Launched in 1994, the Excellent Service Award or EXSA is a national award that recognises individuals who have delivered outstanding service. It seeks to develop service models for staff to emulate, create service champions and professionalise services. EXSA is managed jointly by SPRING Singapore and seven
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon More jobs created
      98 8 Channel NewsAsia AFTER two years of decline in employment figures, with the biggest dip during the Sars outbreak from April to June, the employment situation may be turning. Nine hundred more jobs were created than lost between July and September, the Ministry of Manpower stated. The ministry
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      Beware the competition
      254 8 Lim's message to pilots' union LABOUR chief Lim Boon Heng has a message for the new leaders of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilots' union who will be elected on Friday. He did not want the officebearers of the Air Line Pilots Association-Singapore (Alpa-S) to miss the picture
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      Thief caught
      68 8 A WOMAN was caught redhanded when she tried to fish items from a flat by using a bamboo pole with sticky tape wrapped around one end. This happened on Sunday at Block 210, Jurong East, Street 21. The flat-owner heard a noise in his bedroom and saw the
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      239 8 OvLUira Ariieliake Ivtakes Va iir llumiiy l_ki A great meal in a restaurant, a sumptuous buffet who is able to always resist? But not only during special occasions do we usually over-indulge, during other meals we also tend to take in too much. It is, therefore, not surprising that our
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      Investing in bonds also risky
      199 10  -  Leong Sze Hian I REFER to your report, "Bonds in your portfolio" (Weekend Today, Dec 6-7). Bonds have often been described in media reports as safe investments which give higher returns than bank deposits. According to the book, The Davis Discipline: Fifty Years of Successful
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      Lock icon Wear mask to check flu spread
      345 10  -  Toh Kok Wah Time for a Govt effort to remind public of this fact I HAVE been suffering from the flu for the past two days. As my wife is expecting and I have a four-year-old son, I wear a surgical mask at home
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      Stigma and an unforgiving public
      168 10  -  Nor Azam Ahmad I DISAGREE with John Pereira's argument in his letter, "The public's right to know" (Today, Dec 15) that we should publish the names of those accused of crimes. Yes, the papers have a right to publish details pertaining to most criminal cases,
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      Nature calls at the beach
      75 10  -  Albert Chan ON A recent visit to Punggol beach, I was put off by the fact there are no public toilets other than two portable ones belonging to SBS and to the police post To my disappointment, both toilets are kept locked. I hope Punggol
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Tills rang in $2b in October
      190 12 -Dow Jones October retail sales index (year-on-year growth) Total +13.9% Motor vehicles +38.2% Department store +5.5% Supermarket +4.3% Telecoms/Computers -18.2% Medical goods/Toiletries -9% SINGAPORE'S retail sales index rose 13.9 per cent year-on-year in October, boosted mainly by a sharp rise in vehicle sales. Compared
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      Buy SGS bonds online
      274 12 Fundsupermart.com first to sell Govt bonds RETAIL investors will now be able to buy Singapore Government (SGS) bonds at the click of a mouse. Online investment portal, Fundsupermart.com, yesterday became Singapore's first Internet distributor of SGS bonds. The Triple-A-rated SGS bonds are considered among the safest
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      Lock icon China and India will lead IT growth
      170 12 Channel NewsAsia THE Asia-Pacific IT market (excluding Japan) will see double-digit growth next year, a report said yesterday. According to IT research firm IDC, the market is expected to grow by 11 per cent to US$BB billion ($l5O billion). IDC attributed the positive
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      Lock icon SingTel hits 2-year high
      250 16 Bloomberg Shares rise to $1.90 as overseas strategy starts to pay off SINGTEL shares rose to a two-year high on optimism about the company's expansion overseas. The shares rose six cents, or 3.3 per cent, to $1.90, after earlier rising as high as $1.92. They last
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      corporate briefs
      117 16 NatSteel is paying $1 for Singapore Leisure Industries' 1.5 million shares in Raffles Marina. Debt-laden Raffles Marina had a net tangible liability of almost $35 million as at Sept 30. The boating and country club in Tuas, already 85 per cent owned by NatSteel, is now a wholly-owned
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      Lock icon SBI IPO by Chinese New Year
      125 18 Bloomberg SBI E2-Capital will launch its initial public offering (IPO) before the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan 22, chief executive Peter Choo Chee Kong said yesterday. He said SBI the most active IPO manager this year plans to sell about 40 million
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        ST Index — 1,743.17 +15.44
        4 18 ST Index 1,743.17 +15.44
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        Lock icon Singapore
        78 18 -Dow Jones SHARES ended higher yesterday for the third straight session on hopes that the capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein would mark the end of the conflict in Iraq. The ST index closed up 15.44 points, or 0.9 per cent, at 1,743.17, off an intra-day high of
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        World markets
        56 18 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Pts *****.77 +321.11 +3.16 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries lai wan Wtd *****.17 -74.25 -0.59 3252.00 +35.70 +1.11 5924.24 +65.92 +1.13 Korea Comp 822.16 +16.08 +1.99 KLCI 788.01 -3.93 -0.50 SET Index 686.23 +11.78 +1.75 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B 658.52 +1.78 +0.27
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        Commodities
        21 18 Gold uss/oz 404.400 Silver uss/oi 5.555 Platinum uss/oi 825.500 Rubber centsAg 220.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1821.00 Brent crude uss/b„rrel 29.74
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        SGX most active
        58 18 By volume \sia Env BeautyChina _ha.te.ed .antroVis BrightOrient SingTel fetal Comp iingPost 'Food JniFiber Close 0.485 0.510 1.650 0.245 0.300 1.900 0.450 0.695 1.210 0.170 Change +0.055 +0.040 +0.090 -0.140 +0.030 +0.060 +0.010 +0.060 +0.010 +12.8 +8.5 +5.8 -36.4 +11.1 +3.3 +1.5 +5.2 +6.3 'OOO 67,310 49,423
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        SGX top rises
        80 18 By$ Close Change [hai Prime200USS 10.000 +0.400 iTIETFlOO 17.630 +0.230 .reative 50 18.300 +0.200 DBS 14.900 +0.200 F&N 11.900 +0.200 Fortune Reit HK$ 4.750 +0.150 iingamasC 2kHK$ 4.225 +0.125 IITYDEV 5.950 +0.100 DUE 7.100 +0.100 UOB 12.900 +0.100 By percentage OKP Close Change 0.185 +60.9 Strike W*****5
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        SGX top falls
        74 18 By Close Changi LantroVis 0.245 -0.141 OBS Bk 6% NCPS10 105.500 -0.101 IIOI 3.240 -0.101 /enture 19.800 -0.101 _os.oCo.RCCPS*****4 3.020 -0.061 SA 1.190 -0.061 fransmarco 1.040 -0.041 BakerTedi 0.125 -0.031 DairyFarm 900 USS 1.580 -0.031 )y percentage .antroVis Close Ch 0.245 hange -36.4 Sake.Tech 0.125 -19.4 .raflP
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        Lock icon Your S$1 buys
        41 18 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by USS 0.5848 UK£ 0.335 Yen 63.0957 HKS 4.5396 RM 2.2221 Euro 0.4763 Rupiah 4955.85 Baht 23.1858 Peso 32.4367 A$ 0.7884 Indian Rs 26.6213 Won 692.9712 C$ 0.7693 Yuan 4.8401 NZ$ 0.9044 NTS 19.898
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      Lock icon HK gets 3G services a year late
      219 20 -AFP Hutchison to launch its technology next month HONG KONG Hutchison Whampoa will kick off its local third generation (3G) mobile telecom services next month, the company's managing director Canning Fok said yesterday. However, Mr Fok refused to comment on how many new
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      Lock icon Asean's own plane?
      125 20 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Brunei may join hands to build a small commercial aircraft for the fast-growing Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) market, a report said yesterday. The four countries are exploring the possibility of forming a consortium to set up a plant
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      Lock icon FDI in China drops 40%
      185 22 -AFP Nov fall due to delayed impact of Sars, say analysts BEIJING Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China plunged nearly 40 per cent last month from a year earlier to US$3.6 billion ($6.15 billion), statistics show. Actual foreign investment in the first 11 months increased
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      109 15 CONSUMERS now have a greater choice with the advent of Pictßridge, an industry standard that allows digital imaging equipment to communicate with each other. This gives users a wider range of printers to choose from when printing photos. For the past four weeks, Canon and TODAY have asked
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      482 15 Canon 1560 printer and Digital IXUS i camera MS TEO San San, a 25-year-old customer relations executive, found that using the Canon .560 and Digital IXUS i together created a complete digital experience. The ultra-compact, four-megapixel camera was so light that she barely noticed
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      298 15 Canon MP 370 printer and Powershot ABO camera WORKING in the IT industry with a rating company, Ms Lynette Yong rarely uses a digital camera. When she started using the Canon PowerShot ABO, it quickly became her lifestyle companion of choice. The first look of
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      Professional results for work and play
      283 15 AS A facilities manager, 45-year-old Alexius Wang is required to take pictures in the course of his work, especially digital ones as it makes it easer for him to send them via e-mail. Unfortunately, he only had access to his office's old digital camera
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      621 24  -  Lisa Lee $4.7b order book, growth prospects, make ST Engineering an outperformer by news@newstoday.com.sg IF YOU will pardon the pun, ST Engineering is a defensive stock in more ways than one. Yes, everybody knows it's a defence-related outfit, most famously the producer of armoured fighting vehicles such
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      625 26  -  Cathleen Tung Speedpass makes refuelling and picking up groceries at Esso and Mobil service stations faster by cathleen .tu ng@newstoday.com. sg NOBODY likes to stand in a queue. This is more so for motorists who not only have to put up with
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      Lock icon Tight security for Mega's visit
      266 28 -AFP as Musharraf blames Islamic terrorists for assassination bid ISLAMABAD Despite a bomb going off just hours after Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri landed in Pakistan, all went well for her on the first day of her three-day state visit On Sunday evening, an explosion tore
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      Lock icon 'Messiah' for President
      135 28 -AFP MANILA A motley crew of unusual and obscure candidates were among the first to sign up to run for Philippine President when the 18-day registration period opened yesterday. The candidates include Mr Rigoberto Madera, who said he was a "messiah", a "six-star general" and "Ace Diamond
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        74 28 -AFP Hong Kong's former finance secretary Antony Leung will not be charged over his decision to buy a luxury car just before hiking vehicle taxes due to a lack of evidence, prosecutors said yesterday. The scandal came about when Mr Leung bought a Lexus
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        Lock icon M'sian peace negotiators put off trip to Manila
        58 28 Reuters Malaysian ceasefire observers who are brokering peace talks between Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have postponed their trip to the country. A Philippines' armed forces spokesman said the team's trip had been put off because of "problems" that needed
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      299 30 Agencies FMs stay away from Thai meeting on Myanmar's 'road map to democracy' BANGKOK Thailand, hoping to ease Myanmar's isolation, brought a dozen countries together yesterday to hear Yangon's explanation of its plans to bring democracy to a country ruled by the military since 1962. But
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      128 30 Agencies OSLO Keiko, the killer whale that starred in the Free Willy movies, was buried quietly late on Sunday on the banks of a Norwegian fjord, where he had sought refuge in an attempt to return to the wild, Norwegian officials said. Due to his
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      202 30 Reuters SEOUL The investigation of illicit spending in last December's presidential election in South Korea may claim another victim. A day after South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun vowed to resign if his camp was found to have accepted more than a tenth of
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        71 30 Agencies North Korea rejected a US proposal to ease the nuclear crisis yesterday saying the US was delaying six-party talks and forcing Pyongyang to "steadily" build up its nuclear deterrent. Pyongyang was said to be disappointed by the US's failure to
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        83 30 AFP South Korea's agriculture ministry confirmed yesterday that an outbreak of a highly-contagious bird flu, which can be fatal to humans, had killed thousands of chicken at a farm near Seoul. It said the chicken deaths were caused by a variant of
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      Lock icon PAS targets the Malay heartland
      1009 32  -  Oon Yeoh Its document hints at an Islamic state but this could result in a non-Muslim backlash LAST month, Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), the fundamentalist Muslim opposition party, released its much-anticipated Islamic state document which outlines how it would govern the country if it were
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      152 32 K_i i/^^^^^ <&* K Send your friends a cool animated MMS Xmas Greeting today, £1 and you could take home $100 today I Jj&g&i a,** To send today's Xmas Greeting,simply SMS 'rtwWxAW msc' [P^onel [your message] to ***** Hnjn To send today's greeting to *****671 with the message m W
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      619 33 All anyone could ever want for Christmas? For the traveler. Belkin Battery Pack Carrying Case with Belt Clip Always cany an extra battery pack with Keep your travel companion safely you wherever you g0... just in case! strapped by your side at all times. _> I l_ .Pod mn) l
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon Yes, I do take the train!
      736 34  -  Sjfcene Foo Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung surprised MRT commuters when he rode the train yesterday. And, he admits that back home: IT WAS a rare experience, to say the least Like many a Singaporean worker, I take the train to work. Yesterday, I
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      Right on target
      665 36 Firming treatments to sculpt and tone stubbornly flabby areas WHAT'S a frequent bugbear for many women? Not being able to find enough time for a regular exercise routine is one, but what if no amount of toning exercises seem to work to reduce the bulge in certain
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      95 36 FOUNDED by managing director Vincent Li, who has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical diagnostic field, Unisense is driven by customer satisfaction at benefiting from medically advanced and proven slimming and skincare treatments. Providing effective, painless and safe weight management solutions with
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      255 38  -  Rachel Fang Gain City provides you a way to shake them off by rachel@newstoday. com.sg COME next month, the GST will be increased island-wide. To help shoppers shake away their pre-hike blues, Gain City has launched a sale, aptly titled Beat the GST
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    • BUSY COOK
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        Simple seared salmon
        304 39  -  Pauline DLoh Fish is easy to cook and serve as long as you stick to a few basics IF YOU are stuck for dinner ideas this festive season, choose fish. We are truly spoilt for choice where fresh fish is concerned. Apart from the eclectic selection in
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        KITCHEN CONFID-NTIAI
        266 39 COOKING WITH CAPSICUM THE capsicum family includes both the red hot chilli peppers and the milder sweet peppers that are large and lantern shaped. In between, there are many varieties ranging from the skinny bird's eye chillies to the huge banana-shaped peppers from Mexico. Peppers are eaten from
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        RECIPE
        234 39 SEARED SALMON WITH ROASTED TRIO OF PEPPERS Ingredients: 2 salmon fillet (abt 200g each) I red bell pepper I green bell pepper I yellow bell pepper I punnet vine-ripened tomatoes I tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted I teapoon sea salt Olive oil Method: 1. Cut bell peppers into halves. Rub
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        Quick and easy
        308 41 Asian a la Carte's fried rice is the answer to your hunger pangs THERE used to be a time when most supermarket convenience meals looked and tasted just like a piece of cardboard. Thankfully, times have changed, and the past few years have seen food and catering
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        SEAFOOD FRIED RICE
        71 41 Asian a la Carte's Seafood Fried Rice is a delicious, fragrant and healthy meal with no added preservatives or MSG. It's great value for money as well, as the rice is packed with a generous helping of squid, shrimps, egg ikan bills and assorted vegetables such as
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        OUR TASTING PANEL
        45 41 Yong Shu Chiang, Today journalist "A local favourite made easy!" Ross Wallace, Today journalist "It's quick and easy to prepare a good way to beat late afternoon hunger pangs." Rina Fong, admin executive "It's quite yummy and, more importantly, it isn't oily."
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        440 42  -  Lynette Leong by B vitamins and folic acid help keep heart diseases away news@newstoday.com.sg IT MAY not be a well-known fact, but having a healthy heart depends on our vitamin intake or the lack of it Nutrition consultant Louisa Zhang told Today: "Many aspects of life
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        WHERE TO GET B VITAMINS AND FOLIC ACID
        141 42 VITAMIN B6 which is vital for protein metabolism, energy production and normal brain function is present in beef, potatoes, bananas, chicken, milk and tuna fish. On the other hand, vitamin 812 which is essential in red blood cell formation, cell metabolism and
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        They care about you
        531 44  -  Lynette Leong Nurse educators are on hand to answer your health questions by news@newstoday.com.sg They don't even know your faces, but for the 12 nurse educators at HealthLine, your health is their business. HealthLine is a one-stop health information service set up by the Health Promotion
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        Logo says all
        194 44 THIS month, HealthLine gets a new logo that is reflective of its accessible, user-friendly one-stop health information service hotline. The Health Promotion Board (HPB) explained that the new logo does not have harsh corners and uses rounded fonts in keeping with HealthLine's objective of providing approachable and
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    • INCINEMAS
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        229 46 Oscar punters, take note Reuters/Hollywood Reporter The American Film Institute has named its top 10 films of the year LOS ANGELES The American Film Institute has anointed 10 films ranging from American Splendor, the biopic of eccentric comic book author Harvey Pekar, to Mystic River, Clint Eastwood's brooding look at
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      192 35 I Enjoy all the best mobile phone privileges at over 100 participating H I authorised mobile phone service centres and retail outlets. H I Get discounts for mobile phone servicing repairs, mobile phone H I accessories and when you download Ring Tones, Games, Wallpapers, H I MMS and much more
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      190 38 I J ilsl I All you have to do is just pick any easy I I a recipe from the Kraft Kitchens' Recipe I Booklet and serve with your love. Your I family will enjoy the mouthwatering I meal, you'll have fun discovering just I WT^^ fl '10W versat''e Kraft
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      260 43 M ODER..™ 'Willjfy* BEAUTY SALON *^Ji2_<_V___. Created by Joyce Tsang sincel 991 Festive Joys Are Meant to be Shared Get ready for Christmas and the New Year by paying a visit to our spa and experience for yourself the revealing difference of any one of our signature facials. Better still,
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      168 44 B"~ International DIPLOMA in MONTESSORI Pedagogy Montessori Centre International **9 *f 'Shaping the future' I s~ I I I I It I" (Early Childhood Teaching Course) 6841 1111 _/^_j?|,,,,^^^^____________ The Montessori teaching method is globally recognised as an effective childcentred teaching approach, providing the best nurturing environment for young children.
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      333 44 This is a dynamic world meant only for dynamic people! If you are one, you ought to keep abreast with unceasing changes or you will be left far behind! wMmf^ -W '.J rzcE ji PI SELECT one or more of 1 t^»| tM mmT m \J IWf ■jrfl?ftM__7_W_F_77/7-___ courses and
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      308 57 AFP ATLANTIC CITY Heavyweight boxing has become so sad that champions refuse to fight while pretenders to the throne keep plodding on. Such was the aftermath of John Ruiz's unanimous 12-round decision over Hasim Rahman here on Saturday for the World Boxing Association interim
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      142 57 WASHINGTON Three teams celebrated division titles and another clinched a playoff berth yesterday in week 15 of the National Football League. The Kansas City Chiefs (12-2), Carolina Panthers (9-5) and St Louis Rams (11-3) captured division crowns, and the Indianapolis Colts (11-3) sealed a playoff berth.
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      476 57 AFP India on brink of stunning win on Australian soil Cricket Test Australia v India Home side in danger ADELAIDE India was a tantalising 193 runs from a stunning come-from-behind victory over Australia with all 10 wickets intact after the fourth day in the second cricket Test at
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      372 57 AFP Golf World Challenge, final round Love wins by two strokes LOS ANGELES Davis Love fought off a spirited rally by Tiger Woods to capture the US$5 million ($8.5 million) World Challenge golf tournament on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Trailing by
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        599 58 AFP Players injected with unknown drugs, claims Cascarino LONDON Former Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino said yesterday that he and his teammates were injected with an unknown substance while he was a player with French side Marseille. In a column for The Times of London,
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        229 58 Agencies LONDON Leading tennis players have returned negative results after their urine samples were re-tested for the newly-discovered steroid THG, the sport's governing body announced yesterday. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) approved the retroactive testing of samples taken from the US Open and Davis
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        167 58 AFP BASEL Brazilian star Ronaldo gained some consolation for missing out to Real Madrid team-mate Zinedine Zidane on the World Footballer of the Year award by leading his team to a 4-3 victory over the Frenchman's yesterday. The two football greats led the teams in
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        101 58 -AFP LONDON Liverpool and England striker Michael Owen will not return to first-team action until the New Year as he is still struggling to overcome a thigh injury, the club said yesterday. That means Owen will miss Saturday's trip to Wolves as well as the
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        84 58 AFP COLORADO SPRINGS Tim Duncan, who led the San Antonio Spurs to their second National Basketball Association title earlier this year, was named USA Basketball's Player of the Year. Duncan, who shared Sports Illustrated magazine's Athlete of the Year with now-retired Spurs team-mate David Robinson, collected the
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      467 59  -  Tan Yo-Hinn by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IF ASIA didn't already know it, then last week's SEA Games in Vietnam would have signalled the news. Singapore's Du Xianhui is an emerging shot put force on the continent With a golden heave of 18.20m, Singapore's Du not only won the
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      143 59 AFP JAKARTA President Megawati Sukarnoputri said she felt ashamed after Indonesia finished behind Vietnam and Thailand in the medals table for last week's SEA Games. "They say my country is very, very big but how come in sports we got defeated and only came up in third place?"
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        436 59  -  Philip Lim I REFER to Ray Chen's report, "Alam Shah blames bad luck and his poor finishing for Vietnam debacle" (Today, Dec 12). He wrote that Singapore under-23 striker Noh Alam Shah had said: "We believed we were the best team
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      415 60 AFP Midfielder upsets Henry to win FIFA accolade BASEL, Switzerland On Sunday, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he was "proud" of his striker Thierry Henry and believed he deserved to win the Fifa's Player of the Year title. But he didn't. Instead Real Madrid's French midfield
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      331 60 Agencies LIVERPOOL It is the festive season, which means the Christmas trees are up, Liverpool's form is down and the knives are out for Gerard Houllier (picture). The Reds' Premiership freefall usually begins in late November and continues through to the New Year and
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      361 60  -  Ray Chen by ray@newstoday.com.sg HE expected a whole different ball game from what he had grown accustomed to. But Home United star striker Indra Sahdan Daud was in for a pleasant surprise in his training attachment with English Premiership giant
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