Today, 7 October 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    28 1 TODAY todayonline.com MITA (P) 103/07/2004 I Thursday October 7, 2004 we set you thinking TODAY we set you thinking 1 todayonline.com Thursday October 7 2004 MITA (P) 103/07/2004
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • Article
      Lock icon Wall Street shrugs off new oil record
      120 1 -AFP NEW YORK A late rally lifted US stocks yesterday after a sluggish start, as investors brushed off a new record high crude oil price of above US$52 and bet on improving economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 62.24 points to
      -AFP  -  120 words
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      Lock icon Iraq had 'no WMD at time of invasion'
      85 1 -AFP WASHINGTON Iraq gave up its weapons of mass destruction in 1991 and had no active chemical, biological or nuclear programmes at the time of the US-led invasion last year, the chief US weapons inspector concluded in a report released yesterday. Mr
      -AFP  -  85 words
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      Golden route for all?
      720 1  -  Tay Tsen-Waye New warmth could open Singapore-KL route to budget carriers wayetgnewstoday.com.sg LONG accepted by the aviation industry as a no-fly zone for airlines other than national carriers Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Malaysia Airlines (MAS), the lucrative, high-volume Singapore to Kuala Lumpur (KL) route is now
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      Outsourcing is in
      534 2  -  Ng Shing Vi Govt partnership with private sector is expected to deliver 'better value' for big projects shingyi(gnewstoday.com.sg OUTSOURCING has hit Singapore in a big way in the form of the Public Private Partnership (PPP), a government initiative that will see $1.3 billion worth of infrastructure projects
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      Lock icon Chirac endorses Asia-Mideast talks
      487 3 Spore-led plan calls for fighting terror at its roots FRENCH President Jacques Chirac began an Asian tour yesterday with a stopover in Singapore, where terrorism and a potential billiondollar jet fighter contract were hot topics of discussion with Singapore leaders. Mr Chirac met Prime Minister Lee
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      Vive la Rafale ?
      448 3  - Vive la Rafale Dr Khoo How San |\|Eyy§comment_ French fighter likely pitched anew during visit Wire news service Agence France-Presse said in a report that French President Jacques Chirac might seize the opportunity offered by his stopover here yesterday part of an eight-day Asian tour to play high-powered jet salesman.
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      Lock icon Polls split over winner of running mates' slugfest
      500 4 Agencies ABC News gives Cheney the edge, Fox News has Edwards on top CLEVELAND (Ohio) United States vice-presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards clashed sharply over the Iraq war and domestic politics late on Tuesday in a 90-minute televised debate aimed
      – Agencies; AFP  -  500 words
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      Lock icon PM Lee heads to Hanoi for Asia-Europe meeting
      265 4 Channel News Asia HANOI The sth Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem), which takes place in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi from today, will be the first international summit of leaders which Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will attend. Mr Lee and his European counterparts
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  • Singapore news
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      Officer: I told the instructors to stop
      667 6  -  Lee Ching Wern Says Sgt Hu exhibited 'distress signs' chingwern@newstoday.com.sg A COMMANDO officer who witnessed the dunking of NSman Hu Enhuai during combat survival training last year told the instructors to stop when he saw Sgt Hu exhibiting "distress signs". Lt Kong Wai
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    • SNIGAPOREsnippets
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        Lock icon Aussie judge okays extradition of Brit sought in double slaying
        96 6 AFP An Australian judge yesterday authorised the extradition to Singapore of Briton Michael McCrea, wanted for an alleged double murder here. Singapore had given an undertaking that he would not face the death penalty if convicted over the killings. Mr
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        Lock icon COE prices continue to drop
        109 6 Newsßadio 93.8 Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices have fallen across the board some to their lowest levels this year. Leading the fall is the Open category, now $22,000 down by $4,200. COE prices for small and big cars are also lower at $23,000 for Category
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        Lock icon Ships collide off S'pore waters
        104 6 Newsßadio 93.8 A bulk carrier and a container ship collided in Singapore waters, about 5.5 km south of Changi, at about 4.50 yesterday morning. Panama-registered bulk carrier Heng Shan, which was loaded with 1 60,000 tonnes of iron ore, was departing Singapore for China when
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        Raffles ranked 2nd in Time poll
        48 6 For the second consecutive year, Time magazine readers have voted Raffles The Plaza as their second-favourite business hotel in Asia. The top award in Time's Favourite Business Hotel Category in Asia went to Peninsula Hong Kong. The Shangri-la Singapore came in third.
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        Lock icon New bus service to JB launched
        86 6 Channel News Asia From today, there will be a new bus service between Johor Bahru and Singapore. Malaysian company Handa Indah will begin express services between Singapore's Queen Street and Larkin in Johor Bahru today, despite increased competition on the Singa-pore-JB route from SBS
        — Channel News Asia  -  86 words
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      Ngee Ann sets up China centre to offer full-time diploma courses next year
      324 8  -  Lee U-Wen NOT content with student immersion programmes and study visits to China, Ngee Ann Polytechnic is going one step further than other institutions here. Starting next year, it will be the first polytechnic to set up
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      Safe deposit blunder: DBS offers $2.7 m
      425 8  -  Val Chua val@newstoday.com.sg SENIOR bank officials from DBS Hong Kong yesterday extended an olive branch to 83 customers who lost their valuables in the bank's embarrassing blunder over the weekend, even as the threat of legal action loomed. The bank announced yesterday that
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      101 8 Depression is not a sign of personal weakness. It is a medical condition that needs treatment. Symptoms include intense sadness, sense of worthlessness, loss of energy, changes in appetite and sleeping pattern. You may be easily agitated. It can also reduce your interest in daily activities and ability to concentrate.
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  • world news
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      Too candid for comfort
      516 10  -  Shibu Itty Kuttickal [7^y^^^ffW!fp^^^B But Rumsfeld has the habit of speaking his mind shibu@newstoday.com.sg US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was a diplomat once, but his style today is anything but diplomatic. And his blunt remarks have recently been strikingly at odds with the Bush administration's line
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      Lock icon Megawati has yet to concede defeat
      169 10 AP JAKARTA Indonesia's incoming President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was in limbo yesterday waiting for stubborn incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri to concede defeat in last month's poll, which her rival won by a landslide. Aides to the 55-year-old retired general say that without an explicit concession,
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      Hostage treated 'like an animal'
      140 10 JAKARTA One of the two Indonesian women released after being held hostage for three days in Iraq said yesterday her captors had beat her and treated her like an "animal". Ms Istiqomah binti Misnad said her captors took her to a mountainous area in Iraq
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      Lock icon Canadian sub fire: Sailor dies, 8 hurt
      354 12 -AP Britain handed over second-hand vessel recently LOJNDOJN A sailor injured in a fire that disabled a Canadian submarine died yesterday of his injuries, Britain's Ministry of Defence and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said. The diesel-powered sub drifted in the Atlantic as
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      Lock icon Thaksin reshuffles cabinet
      194 12 -AFP BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday replaced his defence and agriculture ministers in a cabinet reshuffle sparked by growing crises over a separatist insurgency and bird flu. General Sumpan Boonyanun took over as Defence Minister from General Chetta Thanajaro, who lost his job less than
      -AFP  -  194 words
    • this QUIRKY world
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        Lock icon Warsaw mayor to ban sexual championships
        58 12 AFP The Mayor of Warsaw said he will ban the "world sexual championships" due to open today in the Polish capital after organisers of the four-day "Eroticon" festival said it will include a "test" in which women will have to carry out a sex
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        Wash your car with half a tall glass of water
        80 12 China has developed a method to wash a car with just 0.3 litre (half a pint) of water. This is aimed at solving the problems of booming car sales and severe water shortage, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. The
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        Fish as aphrodisiac
        62 12 The humble mudskipper has become all the rage in the Malaysian village of Pasir Panjang, whose inhabitants say the little fish does wonders to flagging libidos when swallowed alive, reported the New Straits Times. Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia's head of fisheries science and aquaculture, Associate
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        Iraq to bid for World Cup
        70 12 Undeterred by the relentless suicide bombings, kidnappings and gun battles in Iraq, sports authorities in the country are planning on bidding to host the football World Cup and they are asking England for advice about how to go about it, reported The Guardian. The
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        A bet on the Nobel Prize
        88 12 Gamblers can place bets online on the person or organisation they think is going to be named the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday. Australian online betting site www.centrebet.com allowed people to wager on their favourites for the prestigious prize for the first
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        Cheesy sabotage in schools
        62 12 Students in Romania are sabotaging lessons by greasing blackboards with processed cheese after discovering that chalk doesn't work on the boards after the treatment, reported Ananova.com. They use the cheese from sandwiches to coat the blackboards, which can't be used unless they are cleaned with detergent
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        Nothing beats 1 + 1=2
        63 12 Nothing beats 1 1=2 A poll by Physics World magazine has found the elementary sum 1 +1 =2 among the greatest equations of all time, reported The Guardian. The simple formula received more votes than groundbreaking equations by heavyweights Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac and Max Planck and finished just two
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      Lock icon $17 million X Prize won
      125 14 Agencies MOJAVE (California) The privately-owned rocket plane SpaceShipOne won the US$lO million ($16.9 million) Ansari X Prize on Monday by blasting into space for the second time in five days, a feat considered the first step towards public spaceflight The X Prize, offered to the
      – Agencies; AFP  -  125 words
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      No bail for Mafia kingpin
      290 14 Gotti's vow to 'turn over new leaf rejected by US federal judge NEW YORK A man with Mafia connections and accused of trying to murder a radio talk show host in 1992, has had his US$lO million ($16.9 million) bail application rejected by a federal
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    • GLOBAL roundup
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        Lock icon Turkey in uphill bid for spot in EU
        49 14 -AFP The European Commission yesterday recommended the European Union start membership talks with Turkey, but set a series of tough conditions warning there was no guarantee of a successful outcome. Turkey was been waiting for 40 years to join the EU.
        -AFP  -  49 words
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        Lock icon Israelis, American share Nobel
        36 14 AP Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for their work in discovering a process that lets cells destroy unwanted proteins.
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        Lock icon Parole denied for Lennon's killer
        34 14 AFP Mark David Chapman, the man convicted of murdering John Lennon outside the former Beatle's Manhattan apartment building, has been denied a request for parole, prison officials said yesterday.
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        Lock icon US nabs 135 for phone fraud
        44 14 AFP More than 135 people have been arrested in an international crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing operations, including bogus lottery schemes and sweepstakes that may have netted hundreds of millions of dollars, US Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday.
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        Lock icon Aussie PM hit for 'phone spam'
        35 14 -AFP Australian Prime Minister John Howard came under fire yesterday for using unsolicited telephone marketing, dubbed "phone spam", to try to gain an edge in the Oct 9 election.
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      Focus On The Family
      232 16  -  Dr James Dobson TblMTs sd FATHERS AND THE CLASSROOM A recent study in America showed that children are far more likely to get good grades in school and are less likely to fail or be expelled if their fathers are highly involved in their school work.
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      Studio flats planned with convenience of elderly in mind: HDB
      249 16  -  DESMOND WONG I Letter from Deputy Director (Marketing Planning) For Director (Estate Administration Property) Housing and Development Board I REFER to Mr Steven Ong's letter, "Let elderly have flats on lower floors" (Sept 30). The Housing and Development Board (HDB)
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      Invest in local S-League clubs
      188 16  -  PATRICK NG Letter from I REFER to the report "Planet still on course" (Oct 6). I was disturbed by Football Association of Singapore (FAS) president Assoc Prof Ho Peng Kee's comment on Planet FC: "As long as they are around midtable standard in the S-League,
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      Restrictions under MUP
      303 16  -  HAJ MOHAMEP] Programme ties hands of residents Letter from HDB's Main Upgrading Programme (MUP) has come to my estate. Though I am glad that it has arrived at last, I doubt it will pass the polls. I am writing in the belief that my neighbourhood will be
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      Lock icon ROHINI TEACHES ME HOW TO LIVE
      533 18  -  I S KOMATHY face in the crowd Ipre-school teacher turned homemaker IT must have been the longest walk of my life. The corridor never seemed to end. I held Rohini's tiny hand tightly, and wondered if she knew what was awaiting her at the
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      Lock icon StarHub IPO raises $458m
      587 20 Dow Jones Shares priced at 95 cents each amid lukewarm sentiment, analysts advise caution KEY shareholders in Star Hub have raised $457.7 million by selling 22.76 per cent of Singapore's second-biggest telecommunications operator to the public at 95 cents a share, the company said yesterday. Star
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    • Market WATCH
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        ST Index — 2,016.04 +4.3
        4 20 ST Index 2,016.04 +4.3
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        Singapore
        76 20 SHARES rose yesterday as investors shrugged off the further rise in oil prices and focused instead on the technically-driven strength in the market's broad uptrend. The ST Index closed up 4.3 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 2,016.04. On the broad market, gainers outpaced losers 155 to 149. Traded
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        World markets
        60 20 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wld Korea Comp KLCI 11,385.38 +103.55 +0.92 13,271.57 -59.53 -0.45 3,709.00 +4.10 +0.11 6,060.61 -20.40 -0.34 887.45 +2.61 +0.29 861.54 -0.02 0.00 SET Index 668.51 -5.37 -0.80 Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 856.06 -5.25
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        Commodities
        21 20 Gold uss/oz 419.90 Silver uss/oi 7.125 Platinum uss/oi 850.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,518.50 Rubber centsAg 214.50 Brent crude uss/barrel 47.20
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        SGX most active
        59 20 By volume Close Change 'OOO Pharmesis 0.390 SPH DB eCW*****8 0.340 Informatics W*****0 0.270 Kl Venlur 0.280 Horizon 0.190 Broadway 0.410 CoscoCorp 1.070 ShanghaiAsia 0.280 KepCorpSGAeCW*****8 0.390 NOLDB eCW*****1 0.720 +0.055 +0.015 -0.010 +0.045 +0.050 +0.005 +0.075 +0.055 +19.3 +5.7 -5.0 +12.3 +4.9 +1.8 +23.8 +8.3 110,483
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        SGX top rises
        84 20 By$ KepCorp Close Change 8.650 +0.350 By percentage KepCorpSGAeCW*****8 Close Change 0.390 +23.8 Creative 50 GrealEast 19.500 +0.200 11.900 +0.100 GenMag Nobel Des 0.185 +23.3 0.135 +22.7 Jardine CSC JSH500USS 8.250 +0.100 6.950 +0.100 Eastgate W*****1 GMG USS 0.055 +22.2 0.030 +20.0 OCBC 14.200 +0.100 SPH DB
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        SGX top falls
        77 20 By$ JMH400USS Close Change 14.000 -0.400 FSN 14.000 -0.200 ShangAski2kHKS 8.500 -0.150 DBS 16.000 -0.100 Venture 16.700 -0.100 Fortune Reit HKS Robinson 6.150 -0.050 6.900 -0.050 Nordto 0.925 -0.045 src 3.640 -0.040 Ascendasra'l 1.550 -0.030 By percentage EcoWise PNE Ind W*****8 Close Change 0.095 -20.8 0.025 -16.7
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        Lock icon Your S$1 buys
        41 20 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by USS UK£ Yen HKS RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5917 0.3325 65.735 4.6144 2.2485 0.4820 5,388.6 24.534 Peso AS Indian Rs Won C$ Yuan NZS NTS 33.309 0.8205 27.137 681.93 0.7481 4.8975 0.8819 20.068
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      176 21 a Great Eastern Charity Golf Challenge Thursday, 7 October 2004 Tanah Merah Country Club (Tampines Course) A fund-raising event for GoldernCare, a Great Eastern Project for the Community Chest. Guest-of-Honour: His Excellency, President S R Nathan 'Ir '^f '^m t^jß i^^^» '"^'£^ol Score a Hole-in-One (Hole 5 and 15). Win
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  • business news
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      HSBC eyes wealth management pie
      284 22  -  Val Chua QFB to beef up team of relationship managers, review commission structure val@newstoday.com.sg AFTER making strong strides in the credit card and mortgage markets, HSBC aims to boost its wealth management business in Singapore, the bank's new head of personal financial services said yesterday.
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      216 22 Dow Jones Dow Jones Dutch Bank ABN Amro has signed the first lease at One Raffles Quay, the 1.3 million-sq-ft office project in Raffles Place being developed by a consortium comprising Cheung Kong Holdings, Hongkong Land and Keppel Land. The 1 60,000-sq-ft lease will house the bank's regional hub
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      Credit bureau for local firms soon
      310 24  -  Tor Ching Li It will assess credit rating of SMEs by next year chingli@newstoday.com.sg A MORE transparent and systematic way of assessing the credit-worthiness of local enterprises is now in the works, announced the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) yesterday. Together with
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      Lock icon Oil prices could hit US$6O a barrel
      212 24 -AFP OIL prices rose above US$5l ($B6) a barrel in Asian trading yesterday as analysts warned US$6O was "within reach" if the northern winter turns out colder than expected. The benchmark light sweet crude for November delivery was at U5551.45 a barrel yesterday,
      -AFP  -  212 words
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      669 25 Agencies Move diversifies earnings base, gives foothold in China's $1.7b ship repair industry: Analysts COSCO Corp Singapore has been a favoured stock in recent weeks and its share price may rise further following an acquisition that will lift its earnings. Cosco, a unit of China's
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      THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
      39 26 Walter Salles' film about a young Che Guevara (played by Gael Garcia Bernal, right) charts the most impactful event of his life, an eight-month road trip through South America that inspires him to become a revolutionary.
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      613 26  -  Yong Shu Chiang IT'S been about five decades since his road trip in South America with Ernesto Guevara. But Alberto Granado, now 82, was still recognised when he retraced parts of his journey with the youthful, pre-revolu-tionary "Che" in 1952. Granado was a consultant on the
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      282 27  -  David Chew TO MARK the official launch of Objectifs as the new Lomo Embassy, the photography and film-making centre is holding a Lomo art installation. The exhibition runs until Oct 20 at their premises at 12A Liang Seah Street Reconstructing the world as we
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      351 27  -  Eveline Gan U'T^HE fans are so crazy over them that -L they even vandalised their names on a wall outside MediaCorp," remarked the publicist of Toro and Van Xingshu. The two Taiwanese artistes are in town to promote the new Mediacorp TV Channel 8 drama
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      415 28  -  Jeanine Tan Fans start a petition to get their fallen idol back into the show j eanine@newstoday.com. sg JEASSEA Thyidor's aggravated fans have started a petition to bring their fallen Singapore Idol back into the competition. The "Bring Jeassea Back!" petition at www.petitiononline.com/idolbjb now has a total
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      238 28  -  Jeanine Tan NOBODY'S started a petition to bring back Beverly Morata into Singapore Idol, but she's not complaining. This, despite the fact that an online petition to bring fellow eliminated contestant Jeassea Thyidor back into the competition has gathered more than 1,000 signatures. "I
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      276 30  -  -Jeanine Tan Singapore Idols happy to meet American peers ELEVEN hyper Singapore Idols packed into a mini-bus on a Monday evening. The excitement was palpable among the youngsters they were going to meet the American Idols at the American ambassador's official residence. When the American Idols appeared about
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      159 31 Who's reading what Richard Lvi (above, left), Suzanne Jung s new co-host on Channel News Asia's Prime Time Morning show. "I'm reading a book on organisational development written by a Stanford professor "and a 'how-to' book on how to frame a house as I'm building my own place in "San
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      Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation
      205 31  - Eats, Shoots Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation Tor Ching Li BOOK REVIEW BY Lynne Truss DID you feel irked by the film title Two Weeks Notice, which appallingly left out the apostrophe after "weeks"? Or did you hardly notice? Do you know that there are 17 rules for
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      162 31  -  Thomas D Robinson BOOK REVIEW BY SET in Washington DC, The Zero Game s plot opens with two congressional staff members, and long-time friends, involved in a clandestine betting pool. They gamble on whether project funding can be submitted into a Bill and passed through Congress.
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      179 32  -  YONG SHU CHIANG DVD REVIEW BY Ella Enchanted Anne Hathaway is back with a tiara. The Princess Diaries star plays a young lady in a fairy-tale land who was cursed as a baby. Given a "gift" of obedience by a quack of a fairy godmother (Vivica
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      198 32  -  YONG SHU CHIANG DVD REVIEW" BY^ The Return Vozvrashcheniye, or The Return, is a stunning debut by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev, an incredibly beautiful picture of great emotional depth. The story is about two teenage boys whose long-absent father returns home and swiftly resumes his patriarchal role with
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      759 34  -  Pearlyn Tham L'Oreal's new liquid foundation melts to become a powder pearlyn@newsto day, com. sg My colleagues and I never thought that we would chance upon a geisha in the middle of Shenton Way but we did. Well, sort of. Over lunch one day, a
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        719 35  - The Genius of flawless skin Pearlyn Tham Lies in the ability of Helena Rubinstein's Skin Perfection Range to draw on the skin's own ability to self-moisturise and self-renew pearlyn@newstoday.com.sg TO turn back time, you can either enter a time machine on reverse mode or hope that a phenomenon like Groundhog
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        499 36  -  Lynn Seah Fair Price Homemart is a one-stop shop for your home and lifestyle needs food@newstoday.com.sg WHILE Fair Price supermarkets are great for grocery shopping, Fair Price Homemart ups the ante by catering to your home and lifestyle needs as well. Within the 14,500 sq ft premises
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        464 37 TOLEDO is an old city, a world removed from gleaming Singapore. While the nation-state recently celebrated its 39th birthday, Toledo has been around for over two millennia developing from a handful of villages called Toletum by its Roman conquerors in 190BC to become the
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        504 37 High on culture nature Nice hinterland THERE are so many facets of Nice that the adjectives seem to contradict each other. It is old, as a walk through the Romanfounded Cimiez and Vieux Nice with its Renaissance-style buildings will indicate. It is ultra-mod-ern: The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
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        103 37 Guillaume my guide, right is a true Frenchman when it comes to packing a picnic. Lunch here doesn't mean a couple of sandwiches and some juice. Oh no The appetiser is olive tapenade on slices of baguette; the entrees are samosa-like dumplings filled with spinach and
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        559 38  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla shobha@newstoday. com, sg lifiltisft TT THEN Emperor Shah Jehan VV who built the Taj Mahal saw Kashmir, he was said to have exclaimed: "If there is a heaven on earth it is this, oh it is this!" No less euphoric was the reaction
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        DON'T MISS THE TRAIN
        179 39 TRAINS are the best way to get around Switzerland. The country's extensive and sophisticated railway system connects practically every town and village going even into the heart of the Alps. The Glacier Express, which took me from Montreux famed for its unmatchable jazz festival to St
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          130 40 CLUB Mcd Cherating will be hosting its event of the year, Rendezvous 11, from Oct 1 6 to 24. Guests will have a chance to meet MTV celebs Denise Keller and Durrty Hustlas, take part in Aura Soma workshops, salsa and ceroc dance
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          220 40 BRITRAIL is offering travellers huge savings for rail travel across Britain from Nov 1 to Feb 28 next year. There is a 25-per-cent off the price of all Britßail Consecutive and Britßail Flexi Passes purchased for use during the offpeak 2004-05 period. The
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          252 40 AUTUMN is a wonderful time to travel in Canada, with different colours at every turn. As the warm days give way to cooler nights, the leaves turn to yellow, gold, orange and red dazzling in the golden sunlight. The display lasts through October till the
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        550 42 Trans-Siberian Railway offers glimpse into heart of Russia WHEN we think of Russia, we think of it in terms of superlatives. At 17 million sq km, it is the biggest country in the world. It is also famed for having the world's longest and most famous train
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        441 43  -  Nazir Keshvani j 11 sz\ j i There's plenty to do andl and Fremantle, mate travellerWnewstoday.com.sg SO, you've been to Perth and think that you've done all there is to see and do? Well, for the been-there-done-that brigade, here are a few new attractions of Perth city and
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        Lock icon Comedian Rodney Dangerfield dies
        208 45 AFP LOS ANGELES Legendary US comedian Rodney Dangerfield, best known for his phrase "I can't get no respect", died after several weeks in coma, his publicist announced Tuesday. He was 82. Dangerfield passed away on Tuesday at the UCLA hospital in Los Angeles, publicist Kevin Sasaki
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        145 45 -AP THE television premiere of Desperate Housewives in the US on Sunday attracted 21.6 million viewers, making the dark suburban comedy the most popular show of the week in the country. The last ABC series at the top was ages ago The Practice, three years
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      442 46  -  STANLEY HO stanley@newstoday.com.sg FOR two weeks, he lived a dream. He shared the same dressing room with Serbo-Mon-tenegrin internationals Marko Pantelic and Ivan Dudic, among others. He trained with the famed Red Star Belgrade first team just like any other professional
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      97 46 DESPITE a gallant effort, Singapore shuttler Kendrick Lee was knocked out in the second round of the five-star Danish Open yesterday, losing 15-12, 13-15, 12-15 to Danish world No 20 Anders Boesen. The 19-year-old Singaporean, ranked 31 in the world, took the game to his
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      484 47 -AFP England hero says he's better than ever and is enjoying rugby like never before LONDON Commitment, thoroughness and getting all excited three of the qualities Jonny Wilkinson said he wanted to see in the England team he takes charge of for three Tests next month. Speaking
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      291 47 AFP AUCKLAND Welfare authorities in the Solomon Islands have reacted with outrage, after a local football fan offered his eight-year-old son as bait for a bet on the team's clash with Australia, reports said yesterday. Saturday's game, a Confederations Cup qualifier, is the biggest sporting event
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      Lock icon Twins' defence shuts out Yankees
      444 47 -AP BASEBALL New York Yankees 0 Minnesota Twins 2 NEW YORK Johan Santana and the Minnesota Twins' dazzling defence had the New York Yankees seeing double. Santana and the Twins escaped trouble with the help of a record-setting five double plays, Jacque Jones homered in
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      Lock icon Not another failure
      577 48 Agencies Ageing Welsh wizard Giggs desperate to reach first major finals, WORLD CUP QUALIFIER England v Wales CARDIFF The words Ryan Giggs (picture) and failure sit uncomfortably together, so when the Manchester United winger leaves the visitors' dressing room on Saturday to face England, defeat is not
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      316 48 Agencies LONDON Wayne Rooney's agent broke down and cried in court on Tuesday, when he described "threatening" attempts to hand the Manchester United striker over to a rival. Paul Stretford, 46, who runs the Proactive agency, says he was blackmailed by three
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      151 48 -AFP LONDON Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has accused manager Jose Mourinho of lying about his fitness in a bid to prevent him playing in a World Cup qualifier. Mourinho claims Mutu is injured and cannot play for Romania on Saturday. But 25-year-old Mutu insists he is
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      141 48 -AFP LONDON Geoff Hurst, the striker who scored a hat-trick for England in the 1966 World Cup Final, has urged SvenGoran Eriksson to axe Michael Owen from the side to face Wales on Saturday. Owen is struggling to be fit for the World Cup qualifier,
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        411 50 -AFP There are too many matches, refereeing inconsistent: Fifa ZURICH World governing body Fifa insisted yesterday that the number of matches played throughout the world needs to be cut. "There is too much football, the players are tired," admitted Fifa president Sepp Blatter who has ordered a number
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        254 50 AFP FILDERSTADT America's Lindsay Davenport became the first player to book her place in the quarter-finals of the US$650,000 ($1.09 million) WTA event here yesterday crushing Australian opponent Alicia Molik 6-1, 6-0. World No 2 Davenport has set herself the target of taking over top spot from
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        161 50 -AFP MADRID Spain's national coach Luis Aragones (picture) could be in trouble for referring to Arsenal's French striker Thierry Henry as a "*****". The outburst came during a training session yesterday as Aragones prepared his team for Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Belgium.
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        232 50 ST ANDREWS World No 1 Vijay Singh believes Tiger Woods has fallen down the rankings because of his failure to change his golf swing, reported BBC Sport online. Singh replaced Woods as the world's best after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship in
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        194 50 AFP MANCHESTER Gary Neville has praised England defender Rio Ferdinand's professionalism during his eight month exile for a missed drugs test. "I never expected that anybody could show the professionalism Rio showed," Ferdinand's fellow Manchester United defender said ahead of England's World Cup qualifier
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