Today, 30 March 2004

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    14 1 TODAY we set you thinking todayonline.com Tuesday 1 March 30, 2004 mita (P) 002/11/2002
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  • Article
    $500 needed in monthly fees to sustain arts school
    589 1  -  Tay Tsen-Waye FOR an independent, specialised arts school to be financially sustainable, local students could have to pay as much as $500 a month in fees or more than double what the 1,200 parents surveyed are willing to pay. A committee
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  • Article
    Sex makes you smart
    124 1 SEX stimulates the brain and makes people more intelligent, according to a top German researcher. Mr Werner Habermehl, from the Hamburg Medical Research Institute, says that regular sexual intercourse promotes intelligence, reported Ananova. He said that lovemaking not only excited the body but also the brain
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    Lock icon The enemy within
    784 1  -  Lee Ching Wern Today Exclusive Complacency is dangerous in war against terrorism TOO much trust in the Government, it seems, is a double-edged sword at least where terrorism is concerned. Ever since the 911 attacks, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has sent out one message constantly
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      64 1 NEWSX\YIEWS H PMGohsays H The poor will not be left behind/3 Chirac under fire I French President under pressure to sack his PM/4 I Walk the talk H Donate time and supplies I to help the destitute/8 ■G3 roll-out H Ml plans to offer service by fourth quarter/10 Choo Ai
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Kang's successor 'in the dark'
      487 2  -  Raymond Andrew He didn't know of $5.1 m funds even a year after taking over FOR more than a year after taking over from Joachim Kang as parish priest of St Teresa's Church, Father Michael Arro had no idea that another $5.1 million worth of
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      Poor will not be left behind: PM
      517 3 He also cautions middle-income to expect less SINGAPORE'S poor will not be left behind in the country's global economic race. In fact, a competitive Singapore will mean the poor will get more help. Expressing the Government's commitment to the lower-income group in an
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      Lock icon Al Qaeda intelligence chief killed in siege
      170 3 -AFP ISLAMABAD Al Qaeda's intelligence chief was killed in last week's Pakistani army siege near the Afghan border, the Pakistani military said yesterday. "Abdullah, who was the chief of Al Qaeda intelligence, was killed in this operation," Major-General Shaukat Sultan, a military spokesman,
      -AFP  -  170 words
    • ELECTIONwatch
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        Lock icon Indon polls confirmed for April 5
        33 4 AFP Indonesia's legislative elections will take place on April 5 as scheduled despite some difficulties in ballot paper distribution, the head of the election commission said Monday.
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        Lock icon BN grabs seat in repeat ballot
        37 4 AFP Malaysia's ruling Barisan Nasional party won a repeat ballot for a state con- stituency seat which was boycotted by the opposition Parti Islam SeMaiaysia (PAS), state media said on Sunday.
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        Lock icon Fresh mandate for Turkish govt
        36 4 Reuters Turkeys conservative ruling party won a strong mandate in Sunday's local elections to press ahead with reforms aimed at taking the country of 70 million people into the European Union.
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        Lock icon Media takeover in Sri Lanka
        52 4 AFP Sri Lanka's election chief took over stateowned radio and TV stations yesterday amid allegations that their programmes were biased towards the President's party. Elections commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake said he appointed a "competent authority" to run stations until after the election, wnich begins with voting
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      Lock icon Shake-up likely for French govt
      350 4 Agencies Chirac in crisis talks after crushing election loss PARIS The fate of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin hung in the balance yesterday after his centre-right government was crushed in regional polls by the newlyresurgent, left-wing Socialist Party (PS). French President Jacques Chirac was having
      — Agencies; REUTERS  -  350 words
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      Lock icon Suits filed to contest Taiwan poll results
      204 4 -AFP TAIPEI Taiwan's defeated presidential candidate, Mr Lien Chan, was expected to file lawsuits yesterday to contest the disputed election, paving the way for a recount that could ease a political crisis. President Chen Shui-bian narrowly defeated his Nationalist opponent by just 30,000
      -AFP  -  204 words
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      19 2 BIBLICAL SUCCESS WSEMINAR Speaker: Rev. Dr John Shepherd Lim You Can Be Super Blessed To Be A Super Blessing!
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      324 3 "With sheer hardwork, passion and determination, the fruit of success tastes even sweeter than you imagined. MDIS helped me realise this." Cassandra Lim MDIS Graduate Advanced Diploma in Mass Communications Oklahoma City University, USA Get ready for a successful communications career with a degree from one of America's top universities.
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Nominations for environment award open
      191 6  -  Diana Yeo IF YOU have converted waste into useful products in a way that no one else has done before, and you've been doing that for a while, you could be nominated for the Singapore Green Plan 2012 (SGP 2012) Award. Or, you can nominate
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      Lock icon In step for a healthy lifestyle
      58 6 TREVOR TAN Pei long Primary School students work out wearing the Stepometer at yesterday's launch of Hie "Step With It, Singapore!" healthy lifestyle programme. A Stepometer counts the steps that a student makes. F&N Coca-Cola and Changi General Hospital extended the pilot project launched
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      Make your firm family-friendly, get 50% grant to do so
      424 6  -  Ng Shing Vi FLEXIBLE, family-friendly workplace arrangements do make hard financial sense and now a milestone study proves it Conducted for the first time in Singapore, the study of 11 organisations found that "for every dollar invested in a worklife
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  • LETTERS
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      Better not to give to beggars?
      164 8  -  Michael Loh I REFER to Ms Tan Sai Siong's letter, "Help the destitute, they do need it" (Today, March 29). Although compassion compels me to give spare change to the destitute, I have always wondered if, by doing so, I am making the situation
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      Let's walk the talk
      585 8  -  Maj (Ret) John Yap Poon Ann Donate time and needed supplies, not money, to help the destitute I REFER to Ms Tan Sai Siong's letter, "Help the destitute, they do need it" and Ms Tisa Ng's news comment, "Falling through the cracks" (Today, March 29). I
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon M1 likely to offer 3G services by Q4
      284 10 Bloomberg MOBILEONE (Ml), Singapore's secondlargest phone company, will probably introduce high-speed wireless services in the fourth quarter of this year, its chief executive officer Neil Montefiore said yesterday. The third-genera-tion, or 3G, services enable subscribers to download from the Internet faster and
      – Bloomberg; CHAN CHAO PEH  -  284 words
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      Lock icon S'pore hotel-room rate rises to 2-year high
      219 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S average hotel-room rate rose to its highest since the Bali bombing in October 2002 and the Sars outbreak last year, boosted by travellers to the Asian Aerospace exhibition. The average room rate reached a two-year high of $133 a night in
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      286 10 CORPORATE briefs Dow Jones Panpac Media Group plans to expand into greater China with its acquisition of Media Sky Associates for $3.96 million. Under the deal, Panpac will acquire a Hong Kong-based sociopolitical magazine Wide Angle and Golden Horse Management, which owns properties mainly in China. Wide Angle ana Golden
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      SGX's thumbs up
      140 12 Hong Leong unit can take on IPO business again HONG LEONG Finance (HLF) has been given the green light by regulators to manage initial public offerings (IPO). Last December, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) had rapped HLF's corporate finance department for mishandling the listing application of FibreChem Technologies
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    • MarketWATCH
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        ST Index — 1,835.54 +8.43
        4 12 ST Index 1,835.54 +8.43
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        Lock icon Singapore
        190 12 Agencies SGX, Bloomberg SHARES closed mixed yesterday, but gains in selected blue chips helped to boost the key market index. Trade was quiet after the recent volatility, with investors finding no convincing lead to drive interest. The ST Index closed up 8.43 points, or 0.46 per cent, at 1,835.54.
        Agencies; SGX,; Bloomberg  -  190 words
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        SGX most active
        59 12 ly volume iyvol Bio-Treat Interra Jade PanpacMed SingTel SeeHS Singatron I pro Jaya Hldg ChinaFlexP Close 0.870 0.260 0.045 0.085 2.300 0.315 0.355 0.115 0.900 0.790 Change +0.020 -0.015 -0.010 +0.005 -0.010 -0.005 +0.010 -0.005 +0.020 +2.4 -5.5 -18.2 +6.3 -0.4 -1.6 +2.9 -0.6 +2.6 'OOO 44,860
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        SGX top rises
        74 12 jy Close Change IBS 14.100 +0.300 iPH 18.800 +0.300 (epCorp 7.150 +0.200 ilA 200 11.100 +0.200 .PH100 18.800 +0.200 .PC 2.760 +0.110 VPB Breweries 7.050 +0.100 )CBC 12.000 +0.100 KBC4.55SNCPS100 101.400 +0.100 By percentage Close i Change Wee Poh 0.020 +33.3 Sunlight W*****4 tepial 0.030 0.350 +20.0
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        SGX top falls
        78 12 By$ Close Change CMShekoulOOHKS 6.100 -0.900 Thai Prime200USS 10.400 -0.900 JMH 400USS 10.600 -0.300 OSIM 1.270 -0.240 Sp Land 3.920 -0.120 Noble 4.900 -0.100 OKP 0.100 -0.100 Sp Land W*****3 STIETF100 1.710 18.500 -0.100 -0.050 Allgreen 1.030 -0.040 By percentage Close Change OKP 0.100 -50.0 PSL 0.060
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        World markets
        60 12 Index Value Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries faiwan Wtd 11,718.24 12,427.34 3,409.100 6,474.11 Pis -52.41 -55.90 -15.100 +341.49 I -0.45 -0.45 -0.44 +5.57 Korea Comp KLCI 874.67 899.58 +10.72 +4.46 +1.24 +0.5C SET Index lakarta Comp 645.80 716.921 -19.45 +2.792 -2.95 +0.35 Phils Comp Shenzhen B 1,388.15
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        Commodities
        21 12 Gold uss/oi 422.20 Silver uss/oi 7.665 Platinum uss/oi 901.00 Rubber centsAg 226.25 Palm Oil RM/tonne 2,003 Brent crude uss/barrel 31.67
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5908 UK£ 0.3260 Yen 62.666 HK$ 4.6150 RM 2.2494 Euro 0.4877 Rupiah 5,095.7 Baht 23.418 Peso 33.372 A$ 0.7948 Indian Rs 26.089 Won 683.39 C$ 0.7792 Yuan 4.8897 NZ$ 0.9062 NTS 19.605
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      SingTel to invest up to $40m in submarine cable network
      129 14 A GROUP of 16 telecommunications operators, including Sing Tel, has awarded France's Alcatel SA and Japan's Fujitsu a US$5OO-million ($845-million) contract to build a 20,000-kilometre submarine cable network. Sing Tel will invest up to US$4O million in the project, the
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      Lock icon Keppel in $1b oil rig bid
      323 14 Bloomberg Analyst says company is front-runner to win Brazilian deal KEPPEL Corporation said an offshore oil platform contract which it is bidding for in Brazil is worth about US$6OO million ($1 billion). Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil producer, is spending US$lB billion
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      3103 14 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Upper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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      744 11 SJ(^ Singapore Institute f^Ok Lls^ of Commerce %^W Creating Learning Opportunities SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE (or "SIC" as it is more popularly known) was founded in 1947. It boasts of being the first "Business" School established in Singapore. Over the last half a century, more than 30,000 aspiring individuals have
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      SPC proposes $312m convertible bond issue
      418 15  -  Kirn Eng Securities Amount higher than required and eases capital concerns, says Kirn Eng SINGAPORE Petroleum Company (SPC), an affiliate of Keppel Corp, yesterday proposed a U*****.4 million ($311.6 million) five-year convertible bond issue, with proceeds to be utilised for strategic acquisitions, investments and
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    • STOCKScalls
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        CHT (73 cents) – BUY
        75 15 CHT (73 cents) BUY ÜBS upgrades its recommendation for adhesive specialist CHT Holdings to Buy from Neutral and raises its target price to 98 cents from 92 cents, given the improvement of earnings at associates and the stabilising of adhesive product prices. ÜBS raises the FYO4 net profit forecast for
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        Lock icon Kingsmen (24.5 cents) — Market Perform
        101 15 Kingsmen (24.5 cents) Market Perform Dow Jones BNP starts coverage on Kingsmen Creatives with a Market Perform recommendation as fallout from the Iraq war, terrorism and economic slowdown continues to undermine the market for exhibitions and international events in Singapore. Kingsmen specialises in the design and production of exhibits for
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Mega's No 2?
      286 16 Golkar's Jusuf rumoured to be picked as V-P JAKARTA As Indonesia braces for next Monday's general election, speculation is growing about President Megawati (picture) Sukarnoputri's possible running mate. The Jakarta Post yesterday hinted at Ms Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) picking Golkar's Jusuf Kalla as
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      Lock icon Immigrant seeks tax refund after 80 years
      113 16 -AFP VANCOUVER At the age of 97, Mr Charlie Quan is in a race against time. He has demanded repayment for a racially motivated 1920s "head tax" he was forced to pay as a Chinese immigrant to Canada. Mr Quan, born Quan Song
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Japan's 'Green Berets'
        60 16 -AFP Japan has formed a 300--strong army unit to boost its counter-terrorism capabilities after the 91 1 attacks. The Special Operations Group, based east of Tokyo, is on standby for operations anywhere in Japan. The unit was formed after Japan studied special forces units in other countries
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        Lock icon Walk the talk
        63 16 Reuters Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sent his daughter to work at McDonalds yesterday. His act was part of a campaign to engender a sense of responsibility in teenagers who are surrounded by the temptations of the modern world. Mr Thaksin, a billionaire, even turned up to
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        Lock icon Romanian ransom
        78 16 Reuters A Romanian DJ seized a radio station on Sunday and threatened to jump from a balcony if his employer cut the broadcast. He told listeners that he wanted his overdue salary, reported TV Antena Mr Alin Farcas, 24, locked himself in the station for four hours before
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        Lock icon Nay to plastic days
        80 16 AFP The Australian government launched a campaign yesterday to help the environment by phasing out plastic shopping bags. The "Say no to plastic bags" campaign aims to get retailers and consumers to switch to reusable bags from plastic bags, which often end up in the waterways
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      Lock icon Terror haven report irks Arroyo
      176 16 -AFP MANILA Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has ordered the foreign ministry to check into reports that a United States Republican survey has tagged the country as a haven for terrorists and to demand an apology if the reports are true. The move comes a day
      -AFP  -  176 words
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      Lock icon Controversy mars Miss India pageant
      187 16 -AFP MUMBAI India's top beauty pageant, Miss India 2004, was marred by controversy yesterday, with Miss India World fighting to keep her title after questions were raised over her marital status. Miss Lakshmi Pandit, who during Saturday's pageant was declared Miss India World the title
      -AFP; AFP  -  187 words
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      Lock icon Chalabi under a cloud
      456 17 Agencies Leader being investigated for misuse of US funds to sway opinion against Iraq WASHINGTON The White House's blue-eyed boy, Mr Ahmad Chalabi, has embarrassed his Washington supporters. The investigative branch of the United States Congress is looking into whether the Iraqi National Congress (INC) leader
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      Lock icon Madrid bombers were fined for minor traffic offence
      198 17 -AFP MADRID Unsuspecting traffic police had stopped and fined several of the Madrid train bombers travelling in a car loaded with explosives just days before the attacks, said the El Pats newspaper. Officers in the province of Leon fined the bombers for
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A bus ride in the sky
      801 18  -  Choo Ai Leng As consumers take to lowcost airlines in a big way, the concept is spreading across the transport sector ON hundreds of flights across the United States, aircraft cabins are transformed into a picnic ground temporarily, as passengers unpack their own food
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      More love, less violence
      641 20  -  Wendy Cheng Well, sort of, as cop show Heartlanders 3 gets a shot of romance INTERESTING fact this: Heartlanders is one of the top three locally-produced Eng-lish-language dramas at least in terms of the length of its run. As it enters its third season tonight, at
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      Lock icon Actor Ustinov dies at 82
      425 21 Reuters Oscar-winner succumbs to heart failure on Sunday GENEVA Oscar-winning British actor and playwright Peter Ustinov, one of the most entertaining raconteurs and mimics, has died at the age of 82. Author of more than a dozen books and even more theatrical works in a
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      Lock icon He's in the (Indian) navy now
      69 21 Shobha Tsering Bhalla After sailing 27,500 km of ocean and surviving 10-storey-high waves, the Indian Navy's sailing ship, INS Tarangini, was in port yesterday to pick up a new trainee, Republic of Singapore Navy's Second Lieutenant Ryan Goh, 22. The 54-metre Tarangini set sail
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        Lock icon Joey goes ahead
        112 22 Reuters LOS ANGELES After a lengthy search, NBC's upcoming Friends spin-off series, Joey, is going ahead. Drea De Matteo of The Sopranos fame has been cast as the sister of Joey Tribbiani (Matt Leßlanc, picture) in the sitcom. Joey centres on the relationship between Leßlanc's character, who
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        Lock icon Docu to honour Madrid blast victims
        117 22 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter MADRID Two weeks after synchronised bombings on four rush-hour commuter trains in Madrid killed 190 people, 20 Spanish film-makers said they plan to make a documentary as a tribute to the victims and the heroes of the March 11 terrorist attacks. The
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        Lock icon Passion stirs more passion
        260 22 -AFP Kuwait's Sunnis, Shias battle over film's release KUWAIT CITY Mcl Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, has stirred a religious controversy in Kuwait between the majority Sunni Muslims who oppose the movie and the minority's Shia Muslims who call for showing it The authorities,
        -AFP  -  260 words
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        Banana leaf fish
        517 23  -  Pauline D Loh Wrap up a piece of juicy salmon and bake it to perfection MY friend was most reluctant to be my guinea pig this time. She didn't like salmon, she said. I was forced to use my trump card, so I wafted the plate under
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        KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
        172 23 COOKING SALMON I COULD call this "50 ways to have your fish and eat it, too", but that would be exaggerating. Indeed, there are myriad ways to make salmon delicious. I don't have to tell you how to eat it raw. Sashimi and sushi have become as much
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    • health
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        Lock icon A rap for her self-esteem
        734 24  -  Lynette Leong Regardless of age, women can be plagued by skin problems at any time in their lives WOMEN wear their woes on their faces. Freckles, wrinkles and pimples are skin problems that can cause a woman many a sleepless night, convince her to part
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        Lock icon In the war against prostate and bladder cancer, enter Vitamin E
        528 25 Reuters WASHINGTON Vitamin E protects against at least two common forms of cancer prostate and bladder but popping supplements is probably not the best way to get the vital nutrient, researchers have said. Two studies found that people who
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        Lock icon Ireland's pubs go smoke-free
        236 25 -AFP DUBLIN The Irish government is striking hard at Ireland's widespread smoking habit with a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants and at the workplace. It is imposing the toughest legislation against smoking in the European Union and the Irish people seem to be accepting
        -AFP; REUTERS  -  236 words
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      535 29 -AFP Rumours abound that he could step aside for friend SWIMMING Australian Olympic trials SYDNEY lan Thorpe will not seek it, Australian Swimming (AS) and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) will not intervene, but there is mounting pressure on Craig Stevens to give up his
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      231 29 -AFP TENNIS Nasdaq-100 Open KEY BISCAYNE, Florida Spanish schoolboy Rafael Nadal (picture) stunned world No 1 Roger Federer 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to oust the Wimbledon and Australian Open champion at the Nasdaq-100 Open. Nadal, the youngest in the
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      137 29 Agencies LOS ANGELES Karl Malone got knocked around quite a bit in his first game against the team he played with for 18 seasons. Nevertheless, he managed a satisfied smile afterwards. "The most important thing is we won this game," Malone said after getting 19 points and
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      934 30 Agencies Wenger hails his players, Ferguson slams the referee ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Arsenal 1 Man United 1 LONDON The spoils were shared. Arsenal's champagne remains on ice and Manchester United's obituary is on file. A year ago, when United drew at Highbury, Sir Alex Ferguson walked
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      324 30 Agencies MADRID Real Madrid's Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz was a relived man after seeing his side thrash Sevilla 5-1 at the Bernabeu on Sunday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). "We're back to our best," he said. "We're already thinking about the next game. We're getting all our
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      512 32  -  TAN YO-HINN Mardan's historic victory comes seven days after yoga session MARDAN Mamat was acutely aware that something was missing from his game. Two weeks ago, Singapore's No 1 golfer topped the leaderboard of the US$9OO,OOO ($1.5 million) Caltex Masters presented by Carlsberg
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      121 32 Reuters RANCHO MIRAGE, California Grace Park won her first Major title after holding off fellow South Korean Aree Song, 17, by one stroke in a spectacular finish to the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Song was two strokes behind playing the 18th. But she hit her second
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      152 32 AFTER an absence of one year, the Standard Chartered Singapore Sevens rugby tournament is back this weekend. And no less than 25 companies have bought corporate boxes for the event, which will be held this weekend at the 60,000-capacity National Stadium. Among those who will be
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      386 32 -AFP GOLF The Players Championships PONTE VEDRA, Florida Adam Scott (picture) was once regarded as a poor putter, but not any longer, not after the way he won the US$B million ($13.5 million) Players Championship. After hooking his second shot into water at the
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      509 33  -  STANLEY HO Coach Zico needs a comprehensive win to appease Japanese critics ANYTHING less than a convincing win against Singapore tomorrow could cost Japan's national coach Zico his job. The Brazilian legend goes into the World Cup 2006 Asian Zone Group 3 qualifier at Jalan
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      306 33  -  KOHWEILING MIRKO Grabovac believes the current crop of Singapore players are the most confident he has ever played with. Back in the national squad for tomorrow's World Cup Group 3 qualifier against Japan at Jalan Besar Stadium, the veteran striker claims his team-mates
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      230 33 Reuters TEST CRICKET Pakistan v India MULTAN, Pakistan Virender Sehwag became the first Indian to score 300 runs in a Test innings as India posted a record 675 for five against Pakistan in the opening Test yesterday. The 25-year-old from Delhi hammered 39 fours
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      158 33 FOR those who missed out on tickets for the World Cup 2006 Group 3 Qualifier match between Singapore and Japan, there is a still a chance of winning entry to the clash at Jalan Besar Stadium. At the Football Under the Stars event tomorrow night, where
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